Posts from the ‘Movies I liked or didn’t’ Category
This 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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Vanity 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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With 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 for […]
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Have 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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I 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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Last 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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Saw “Avatar” two weeks ago, and some observations about it stay with me — some things it was trying to say, some things it did say, and the differential between the two. (Two quick caveats: 1 – This will include spoilers. 2 – I’m not sure it will make sense if you haven’t seen the movie.) […]
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Greg sent me this link with his usual brief subject line: Bloggable. He’s right, it is. Disney has decided not to fund the third Narnia movie. They cite the low returns of ‘Prince Caspian.’ But that last Narnia movie made $419 million worldwide, (compared with the $249 million gross for a non-Christian fantasy movie like ‘Eragon’), […]
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Alice sighed wearily. “I think you might do something better with the time,” she said, “than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answers.” “If you knew Time as well as I do,” said the Hatter, “you wouldn’t talk about wasting it. It’s him. … Now, if you only kept on good terms with […]
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I just rented a pay-per-view movie that I really, really disliked. I disliked it so much that I didn’t pause it when I went downstairs to get a snack. And once I was down there, I unloaded the dishwasher and took the astonished dog out for a long backyard potty break. But it was no […]
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