Category: cinema reviews
Hey, didn’t you teach or write about that one movie that one time…? Teaching Film and Theology for years, and contributing reviews to several websites, people have been asking if these reviews would ever find…
More than two decades after Hasbro, Takara, Sunbow and Marvel Comics combined forces, to unleash the most successful, holistic, cartoon/comic/vehicle/puzzle/robot marketing campaigns ever known to man, creating a towering titan of revenue that has ebbed 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…
In 2005, I subjected myself to the Fantastic Bore… watching Jessica Alba failing to act intelligent, while Ioan Gruffudd and Michael Chiklis looked around nervously, hoping no one would notice them as they collected a nice…
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…
Premonition Director: Mennan Yapo Cast: Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon TriStar Pictures, 2007 Rated: PG-13 According to Webster’s Dictionary, a premonition is “previous notice or advance warning”. If only Sandra Bullock had received such notice before…
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;…