fantasy
AVATAR: Creation, Shortsighted pt 1
February 19th, 2010
In my introductory post on AVATAR, it was mentioned that some moviegoers are reportedly “suffering from “Avatar blues”, surrounded by the glorious 3-D world James Cameron and a team of visionaries designed as a feast for the senses and leaving with a reality-crashing sense of dissatisfaction and loss. One online forum administrator is quoted [...]
Brokenness & Sin in AVATAR
February 16th, 2010
In James-Cameron’s groundbreaking, record-shattering, world-building film Avatar (see Cinemagogue’s introduction) we begin the fantastical journey en route to planet Pandora. Except for Jake Sully’s hyper-sleep flashbacks we never see the planet Earth, and even these are tight camera shots focused on his twin brother’s death and cremation. We know little about the state our world [...]
AVATAR Attacks!
February 12th, 2010
A little film came out in 1977 called Star Wars and raised quite a controversy amongst Christian fundamentalists. I remember a couple kids I carpooled to Christian school with informed me that they were forbidden to watch Star Wars movies because “Yoda was a demon” (for the record, so was E.T. the Exorcist Terrestrial). Many [...]
STAR TREK (part 2) BOLDLY goes back
January 26th, 2010
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has changed the Best Picture nomination section to include TEN nominees this year… but somehow I doubt my favorite film of 2009 will make the list… AGAIN (I still don’t forgive them for snubbing The Dark Knight, and neither should you).
Get your geek on with me in [...]
The Fall in Winter
January 15th, 2009
On a snowy Seattle night in late December, “Pushing Daisies” fans braved the icy road warnings and packed into Mars Hill | Lake City to see actor Lee Pace in a film and theology event hosted by James Harleman. The audio examination of the film, which followed a viewing of the movie, has been captured [...]
Sparkly Vampires and Another Cultural Phenomenon!
December 22nd, 2008
review of TWILIGHT
by Caitlyn Stark
starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson
directed by Catherine Hardwicke
Rated PG-13
Hey everybody, I’m back and bringing you another cultural phenomenon. This time, there are no singing and dancing high school students! This time, there are sparkly vampires and a small rainy town on the Washington peninsula!
This latest cultural phenomenon began for the [...]
Re-enchantment with the World of Hellboy
November 16th, 2008
review of HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY
by Diana Taibi
starring Ron Perlman and Selma Blair
directed by Guillermo del Toro
Rated PG-13
“The movie’s in theme is… in favor of saying, the most mundane things, the most mundane concerns, are destroying beauty, and they’re destroying spirituality, and they’re destroying ideas, and they’re destroying magic… It’s a film about how [...]
Exploring Guillermo Del Toro’s Labyrinth
July 25th, 2008
Pan’s Labyrinth
Audio Review by James Harleman (contains spoilers)
“Is there real immortality and real magic? I believe there is… I believe they are a spiritual reality that is as tangible and as real as the material world… Only those that KNOW where to look – only those that have the right GAZE – can see it.”
– [...]
Caspian 2: Lewis Boogaloo
July 16th, 2008
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
review by Caitlyn Stark
Rated PG
How many times have we not been able to wait on the perfect timing of the One who loves us? Cinemagogue reviewer Aaron Webb had another perspective on Prince Caspian, but family film reviewer Caitlyn Stark provides her own thoughts:
Prince Caspian is set one year [...]
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 Prince Caspian [...]