fantasy
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, Singh, for his filmmaking credits) was [...]
Audio Exploration of BEOWULF’s Boasts…
March 14th, 2008
LEGENDS AND FALLEN HEROES
AUDIO REVIEW by Pastor James Harleman
“The time of heroes is dead: the Christ god has killed it, leaving nothing but weeping martyrs and fear and shame.” – Beowulf, from the 2007 film
The tale of Beowulf in 2007 differs greatly from the epic, ancient Anglo-Saxon poem. What of Beowulf’s claim in the [...]
Poetry in 3D – A review of BEOWULF
December 4th, 2007
My cohort Aaron Webb penned this review of the recent computer-animated film… and as he knows the source material better than I, I’m posting his review first. I’ll post my own thoughts on the film next…
Changes to Poem Render Computer Animated Film Less Potent
by Aaron Webb
Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf is a computer generated sword and sandals [...]
The Story of Story…
April 14th, 2007
“I wanted to believe, more than most I wanted to be like a child again.”
Cleveland Heep discovers that beyond the veil of his mundane and humdrum life is a world of myth and fantasy, a true myth that overlies his own, a spiritual world with great consequence to our lives, to our future.
Overlooked in [...]
Come and Get Them…
March 11th, 2007
In 480 B.C., Leonidas and his 300 Spartans sacrificed themselves to buy time for the Greeks as an army of Persians beyond count sought to conquer the lands. Over time, the story has become legend; I actually passed through Thermopylae Pass on a trip through Greece, where the Spartans fell in battle for their families, [...]