CineMUSINGS
SUPERNATURAL meets the Fonz (with skis)
May 23rd, 2010
In the middle of fourth season, CW‘s enduring Supernatural had a daring episode that they titled “Jump the Shark”, dallying with a series-ruining concept but conveniently avoiding the idiom’s teeth. It actually worked… until sadly, the last episode of fifth season – originally slated to be the series’ finale – decided to try on Fonzie’s awkward [...]
Read More...Putting the HURT on someone…
May 17th, 2010
Prepping for a lecture this Friday in Seattle following a showing of 2009′s Best Picture winner The Hurt Locker, and thought I’d try something new for the blog with an advance request for thoughts and comments from our avid readers. What salient speaking points regarding the film should I include? Biblical concepts that came to mind? Particular [...]
Read More...1… 2… Freddy’s Coming for You…
April 29th, 2010
With the new Nightmare on Elm Street haunting cineplexes tomorrow, it seemed like a good idea to resurrect a controversial topic. While pagan philosophy on the circle of life in kids’ movies, and the fact that a couple is having premarital sex in the latest romantic comedy, are often glossed over/justified by many religious types and [...]
Read More...How to Train your Content
April 21st, 2010
Things have really taken off with Cinemagogue, from increasing emails to a a few interviews culminating in articles to more connections with writers, pastors and filmmakers. The Mars Hill blog began promoting film and theology events where we capture the audio, and I started blogging for The Resurgence using video. The embedded review of How [...]
Read More...Writer of KICK-ASS promotes Bible & Jesus?
April 14th, 2010
Well before Wanted packed out cinemas around the world, I was reading screenwriter Mark Millar‘s writing run on Swamp Thing. Though I haven’t been religious in following this writer’s work, I have quite a lot of Millar’s comics and graphic novels in my home collection, including The Ultimates. He’d probably make the short list of [...]
Read More...The Flash-Sideways Oscars
March 11th, 2010
We all know that Avatar got stuffed into The Hurt Locker at the 2010 Academy Awards, a “David-beats-Goliath” victory, with the added spice of knowing that Avatar director James Cameron divorced Hurt Locker’s Director Kathryn Bigelow about the same time he decided he was the King of the World. She obviously gets custody of this [...]
Read More...Be Still, my Beating Inbox…
March 11th, 2010
I received an encouraging word from new friend Michael, who sent me a link on The Daddening of Video Games, but he also made me introspective. I work on Cinemagogue primarily as worship, which I define loosely as “to discover and declare the glory of God”. Still, seeing fruit in people’s lives from the endeavor [...]
Read More...Who’s your Daddy? In video games, YOU are…
March 9th, 2010
A friend linked me to this great article about “The Daddening of Video Games” by Stephen Totilo at kotaku.com, and it got me pondering the daddy issues (in the case of Bioshock 2, BIG Daddy issues) prevalent in culture. A while back I blogged on the emerging Daddy trend in movies and – as if there was any [...]
Read More...Punxsatowney Phil Can’t Keep Spirits Down…
February 2nd, 2010
Depending on your view, some “punx” may have just ruined your spring for 2010. Personally, I love winter – long coats, warm scarf, my wife in cute mittens and a cat-eared furry hat… so a little March snow brings fond memories and builds new ones. The assemblage at Gobbler’s Knob is good news for me. [...]
Read More...One CRAZY summer… no Cusack
October 3rd, 2009
This has NOTHING to do with Demi Moore and John Cusack in the 1986 (classic?) film directed by Savage Steve Holland. It has EVERYTHING to do with me, however, and why the site has lay fallow for the last few months. The summer movies have come and go with a wash of explosions, CGI, mixed [...]
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