Category: audio reviews
Alfonso Cuarón’s film adaptation of the P.D. James’ book Children of Men is an incredible work of art marked by some of the most amazing cinematography I have seen. Opening on Christmas day in 2006,…
Transcending pulpy paper and kiddie-comics, these global cultural icons have invaded nearly every entertainment medium since the 30s, from radio programs to billion dollar films. As a younger man, I resonated with Batman and the…
Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and…
“If you knew you were gonna die, possibly soon, what would you do?” – Harold Crick, Stranger than Fiction Is your life a comedy or a tragedy? When Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) hears the narrator of…
I keep expecting director Christopher Nolan to swing and miss. He gave us a stirring Memento, wrestled with Insomnia, ensured that Batman Begins, and capped things off with The Prestige, my pick for greatest film…
“I wanted to believe, more than most I wanted to be like a child again.” – Cleveland Heep Cleveland Heep discovers that beyond the veil of his mundane and humdrum life is a world of…
It was a joy and pleasure to discuss the deep spiritual implications of Talledega Nights: The Ballard of Ricky Bobby last month in North Seattle. Yes, I’m serious. This movie helps illustrate why we laugh…
Shaun of the Dead is a tremendously romantic movie… …with blood. And zombies (oops, don’t use the Zed word). The movie also inspires a lot of laughter… provided you’re a little bit twisted. It’s interesting…
Peter Parker spins another web of comedy, drama and spandex as he wrestles with a tentacled villain and his own self-doubt, in what may be the most faithful adaptation of a comic book character to…
When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men, led by Professor Charles Xavier, and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organized under Xavier’s former ally, Magneto.
While the final chapter of the X-Men trilogy met with mixed reviews, the overall arc makes for some interesting conversations and the choices made by characters – particularly Wolverine and Rogue – are revealing. In many ways, the trilogy is THEIR story.
We had a chance to unpack the X-Men universe – the comics, the characters, their long history – and then zero in on the particulars of this incarnation at a Film and Theology event in North Seattle…
Serenity is the amazing conclusion to Joss Whedon’s cult classic (and short-lived) television series Firefly. Set in the year 2517, the story follows the adventures of the renegade crew of a “Firefly-class” spaceship as they struggle with both…
The story of James Braddock, a supposedly washed up boxer who came back to become a champion and an inspiration in the 1930s, has important narrative themes that I was asked to speak on at…