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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…
A review of RUN, FATBOY, RUN by James Harleman (Rated PG-13) “… let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is…
A Review of Doomsday (R) When a movie comes out called Doomsday, it invariably draws ones mind to many other end-of-world films that have graced (or smeared) the silver screen over the last several decades.…
“The time of heroes is dead: the Christ god has killed it, leaving nothing but weeping martyrs and fear and shame.” The tale of Beowulf in 2007 differs greatly from the epic, ancient Anglo-Saxon poem.…
What’s that limping slowly in the distance? Wow, that guy looks half-dead… WAIT! He doesn’t look half dead… he IS dead. So… like, why is he making a movie? In case you’re wondering, I’m not talking…
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,…
A Review of CLOVERFIELD by Pastor James Harleman Rated PG-13 Released January 18, 2008 Directed by Matt Reeves Produced by J.J. Abrams Rob Hawkins is not having a great evening. His New Yorker friends throw…