Movies of the Passion for Holy Week
April 30th, 2013 | Movies I liked or didn't, Slider | Grace | 6 CommentsDo you watch movies about the Passion of Christ during Holy Week?
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Posts from the ‘Movies I liked or didn’t’ Category
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Hobbit issues
January 8th, 2013 | Movies I liked or didn't | Grace | 2 CommentsA ripping yarn or a ripping yawn? And are there some serious reasons for the movie’s problems?
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Patching up the universe with three movies
September 10th, 2012 | Culture-watching 101, Movies I liked or didn't | Grace | No CommentsMy latest on the OCN blog, and (I hope) a little fun for others. Looking at three fave movies about a broken world and comparing the moral to the stories.
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Now podcasting: Your host(ess)
June 10th, 2012 | Movies I liked or didn't, Pop goes the culture | Grace | 1 CommentWhat’s that flying through the air? Why, it’s the voice of your genial hostess!
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Teachable moments at Hogwarts
February 4th, 2012 | Movies I liked or didn't, Pop goes the culture | Grace | No CommentsThis was my first blog post for Orthodox Christian Network’s revamped blog called The Sounding. I was glad to have the chance to talk about something I noticed when I watched the last Harry Potter movie. I wonder if anyone else noticed it … There’s nothing new in pop culture about re-enacting the ultimate battle [...]
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Self-criticism and real humility
May 10th, 2011 | Movies I liked or didn't, Orthodox perspective, Quotes | Grace | 3 CommentsVanity is such a hallmark of the world’s culture that it’s hard sometimes to realize that the tendency to despise yourself is really no better.
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"Source Code" – Playing with time again, and again
April 17th, 2011 | Movies I liked or didn't | Grace | No CommentsWith Holy Week upon us, this isn’t likely to be a meaningful recommendation, but all the same, I thought I’d include a trailer and a plug for “Source Code.” Best way to sum up the plot is just to watch the trailer, which does a good job. As I said back HERE, I’m a sucker [...]
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Zeitgeist and Inception
August 9th, 2010 | Culture gone mad, Movies I liked or didn't, Orthodox perspective | Grace | 4 CommentsHave you been watching motion pictures recently and said, “Why can’t we have MORE special effects, MORE dark, apocalyptic imagery, MORE violence and non-stop motion?” Well then! “Inception” is the movie for you. More to the point, if you watched the Matrix series and thought, “Well, it’s an interesting alternate reality, but for goodness sake, [...]
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Two RomComs I actually liked
May 31st, 2010 | Movies I liked or didn't | Grace | 4 CommentsI didn’t know that romantic comedies were abbreviated RomComs until a recent trip to the Netflix comment area. And given that both of these — “Date Night” and “Letters to Juliet” — have been playing for weeks now, you might have to wait until Netflix stocks them if you want a look. Both are worth [...]
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About Avatar (part 2): Fake versions of us
February 20th, 2010 | Culture gone mad, Movies I liked or didn't, Pop goes the culture | Grace | 4 CommentsLast point about Avatar I wanted to make: Movie-makers have had a lot of fun blurring the lines between the real world and artificial worlds. Only recently have they been doing the same thing with real and artificial selves. And I think there’s a reason for that. Only in the age of online communities and [...]
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