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TRON’s Legacy isn’t deep, but appropriately playful
James Harleman / January 5, 2011
What were YOU expecting from TRON: Legacy? A cursory viewing of this sequel’s 1982 film predecessor, sporting half-baked yet fun ideas stretched across a kaleidoscope of
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Coming to a Cinemagogue Near YOU…
James Harleman / January 3, 2011
Last year, I expanded my work with Film and Theology, movies and metanarrative, beyond the boundaries of the interwebs and local events, crossing the country to
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The Worldview of an ELF (via Will Ferrell)
James Harleman / December 17, 2010
A special son raised in a Christmas paradise is sent south to a much harsher world where he sees the darkness in the world and overcomes
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TRON proves ’82 debut was not the “end of line”…
James Harleman / December 13, 2010
In 1982, TRON was passed over for an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects because the Academy felt the movie “cheated” by using a computer (seven
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DONNIE DARKO: in God’s channel (pt 2)
James Harleman / October 31, 2010
“It was as if the plan had been with him all his life…” – Karen Pomeroy, Donnie Darko Spoilers Ahead: for the first part of the Donnie
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Flashback to DONNIE DARKO
James Harleman / October 29, 2010
“28 days… 6 hours… 42 minutes… 12 seconds. That is when the world will end.” – Donnie Darko Writer/Director Richard Kelly uses various techniques to capture
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INCEPTION, Reformed (for the last time)
James Harleman / October 21, 2010
What do filmmaker Christopher Nolan and Puritan Preacher Jonathan Edwards have in common? I know we’ve been hammering on Inception for what seems like a lifetime
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“True Inspiration” versus INCEPTION – does it exist?
James Harleman / October 8, 2010
“True inspiration is impossible to fake.” In Christopher Nolan’s incredible Inception, the notion is posited that planting an idea may not be possible because the mind
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Why I am afraid of HOUSE…
James Harleman / September 30, 2010
My wife and I knew Hugh Laurie as a gullible Prince Regent from Black Adder and the foppish man-boy from Jeeves and Wooster long before he