Category: CineMUSINGS
musing on media, facts on film, commentary on culture, and more
I thought my friends and I were crazy when we had a Lord of the Rings day and watched all three EXTENDED editions, totaling some eleven and a half hours not counting disc changeovers, bathroom…
Offshore internet drilling struck a server pocket of buried mp3 audio reviews and explorations of film that haven’t been listed or noted as part of the Cinemagogue site… until NOW. Since our friends at Mars…
by James Harleman One of my Top 10 films is John Carpenter’s The Thing. One of my guilty pleasures as a ten-year old television viewer was the man-morphing “Manimal”. The only film that made me…
For the Oscars, the second time’s the charm. If you don’t remember, last year’s Oscars were hosted by Ellen, following Hollywood’s lack of appreciation for Jon Stewart’s deprecating performance in 2006. One of her “gags”…
Unless you’ve been living in a cage, you know that the scribes are holding the entertainment world hostage. The Writer’s Guild of America Strike that began on November 5th continues to this date, and all…
Almost a year ago, someone put a bullet in the symbol of our hope. The superheroic icon of Americana was fatally shot in early 2007 in the pages of Marvel Comics. Steve Rogers, the flag-waving,…
I gave a New Year’s Eve lecture looking back at 2007, touching on the sheer inability for anyone to be a true cinema and television expert with the number of films and channels at play;…
A lot of Christians I know love science fiction. Even more like tales of the heroic – comic book heroes or action figures fighting for justice on a big screen. That’s not to suggest that…
Exploring the REAL Reasons for Sequel Madness and Episodic Film By Pastor James Harleman “The franchise rights alone will make us rich beyond our wildest dreams.” – Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters In a previous post, my…
Written by Cinemagogue contributor Elliot Strong My friend Elliot wrote an article for the Vox Pop and I wanted to post it here for commentary. While we don’t see eye-to-eye, in true Ebert/Roeper form I…
The Invasion is over, everyone. and the science fiction occupation has begun. While “sci-fi” once remained relegated to the Area 51s of the FOX Network or the Sci-Fi Channel, it has now descended from the…
J.J. Abrams has gone where no one else dared. Not only is it officially announced that we’ll be seeing another Star Trek feature next year (by the red-hot director who gave us Lost, Alias, Mission Impossible…