Category: comedy
movies that make you laugh, or attempt to…
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 it with a light in his eyes that refuses…
In Pixar’s UP, an undeniably delicious treat for the senses, Carl Frederickson is chafing against the age-old aging process lamented in Ecclesiastes 12, and sets out to recapture the “spirit of adventure” and honor his…
If someone told me it was possible to make a movie that was part Watchmen, part Superbad, and part Tarantino film, I’d have said they were more deranged than Rorschach. However, although the most tonally-eclectic…
Things have really taken off with Cinemagogue, from increasing emails to a a few interviews culminating in articles to more connections with writers, pastors and filmmakers. The Mars Hill blog began promoting film and theology…
review of BOTTLE ROCKET by Zach Malm starring Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson directed by Wes Anderson, Rated R Bottle Rocket, the first film from Wes Anderson, of Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums fame, is my favorite…
A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family’s wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of…
A Review of The Apartment by guest contributor Zach Malm Directed by Billy Wilder Starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray A writer-director before that hyphen became commonplace, Billy Wilder is responsible for some of the…
A review of THE BIG LEBOWSKI by Elliot Strong starring Jeff Bridges and John Goodman directed by Joel Coen Rated R His words are quoted, books have been written about him, gatherings are arranged in…
Audio Review of JUNO by Pastor James Harleman “I need to know that it’s possible that two people can stay happy together forever…” Jason Reitman, the brilliant Director that gave us Thank You for Smoking,…
Fairy Tales: Folly or Faith? An audio exploration of Enchanted Enchanted intrigued me as it hit squarely on one of my favorite narrative dichotomies in Hollywood storytelling… what I affectionately call “Life Under the Sun”…
Whether you cross decades or cross the pond, you can find shared shenanigans, duplicated drudgery, synchronized self-absorption, and facsimilied foolishness. Office politics and the cubicle life play themselves out in some amazing comedies which don’t…
Whether you cross decades or cross the pond, you can find shared shenanigans, duplicated drudgery, synchronized self-absorption, and facsimilied foolishness. Office politics and the cubicle life play themselves out in some amazing comedies which don’t…