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Is the Prince REALLY on the Throne?
June 26th, 2008
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Rated PG Reviewed by Aaron Webb The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is the second in the motion picture fantasy franchise created from the books by C.S. Lewis. The story recounts the adventures of the four Pevensie children, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, as they re-enter Narnia to help [...]
Read More...HULK smash… puny preconceptions and manipulated memories
June 20th, 2008
by James Harleman, Cinemagogue Editor-in-Chief “The first Hulk movie was a failure!” “The first one bombed at the box office!” “The previous movie didn’t have enough Hulk!” “The Hulk effects looked like crap!” “Ang Lee’s movie was depressing!” And so on… and so on… and so on. As The Incredible Hulk smashed into theaters June [...]
Read More...After THE FALL…
June 18th, 2008
A Review of The Fall by Claudine Elizabeth Miller Directed by Tarsem (Singh) Rated R Bandits! Smart Monkey! Oh My! But, being as how this review is supposed to be longer than 10 words, here are my reasons why you should see Tarsem’s The Fall: Reason #1: Sure, Tarsem (he has recently dropped his surname, [...]
Read More...Marvel’s Second Hulk Transformation is SMASHING…
June 14th, 2008
A Review of The Incredible Hulk by Pastor James Harleman Starring Ed Norton, Liv Tyler, and William Hurt Directed by Louis Letterier I can remember my Dad racing home furiously in our Volkswagen Beetle, hoping to drop us in front of the television before the pilot for the 1970s Incredible Hulk began. We rarely missed [...]
Read More...World Weary Indiana Jones must choose… WISELY
June 1st, 2008
A review of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull by Pastor James Harleman Starring Harrison Ford and Shia LeBeouf Directed by Steven Spielberg Rated PG-13 Preppy teenagers cruise along in a 50s roadster, urging the square-jawed men with serious faces next to them to loosen up and enjoy the ride. The latest [...]
Read More...Iron Man’s midlife crisis makes audiences cheer while fans soil themselves with glee
May 7th, 2008
A review of IRON MAN (PG-13) by James Harleman (for an exploratory audio review of the film taught before a live audience, click HERE). I sat through Black Sabbath’s classic “Iron Man” tune, watching the film’s techno-credits dazzle until the familiar scroll kicked in. The friends who’d accompanied me and sat through the two-hour rocket [...]
Read More...Fatboy runs from Abdication to Dedication
March 28th, 2008
A review of RUN, FATBOY, RUN by James Harleman (Rated PG-13) “… let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us…” – Hebrews 12:1b Marathon becomes metaphor in this story of the everyman’s desperate flight from role and [...]
Read More...Appropriacalypse Now
March 19th, 2008
A Review of Doomsday (R) by Pastor James Harleman When a movie comes out called Doomsday, it invariably draws ones mind to many other end-of-world films that have graced (or smeared) the silver screen over the last several decades. There are so many creative ways the apocalypse might be ushered in, after all. It could [...]
Read More...Dear Diary, this movie sucked…
February 21st, 2008
What’s that limping slowly in the distance? Wow, that guy looks half-dead… WAIT! He doesn’t look half dead… he IS dead. So… like, why is he making a movie? In case you’re wondering, I’m not talking about a character in George Romero’s latest zombie flick, Diary of the Dead. I’m talking about Romero himself. Okay, [...]
Read More...Film in the Era of Daddy Issues
January 27th, 2008
Sixty-one years old, but looking as tough as a truck-stop steak, Sylvester Stallone shouts and shoots a fifty-caliber cannon, converting Christian-oppressing pirates and perverts into pulp, parts, and puddles, before they can mutilate and murder the missionaries and mercenaries trying to bring light to a lifeless land. Standing atop the mountainside of meat, bone and [...]
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