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Category Archives: Movies
Winter’s Bone and Rodney Clapp
I’ve only seen a couple of movies this year that I really loved, and at the top of that list is Winter’s Bone (the list also includes Toy Story 3 and Babies. And Crazy Heart, but that’s officially a 2009 … Continue reading
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Movie review: Jeff Bridges’ “Crazy Heart”
My review of the great new Jeff Bridges film, Crazy Heart, which I wrote with a friend shortly after I saw the movie last month, was just posted on the Rabbit Room blog. Here are a couple excerpts: I’d have … Continue reading
500 Days of Summer: A Story about Love
Talk about discouraging people from seeing a movie. In one of the first write-ups about 500 Days of Summer that was posted on a blog back in January, the reviewer compared it to Slumdog Millionaire, Juno, and Little Miss Sunshine. … Continue reading
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Free Music from Randall Goodgame
So you know that new Randall Goodgame EP, Bluebird, that I’ve blogged about?
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Expelled: No Grays Allowed
When the documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, featuring Ben Stein, hit theaters back in April, I didn’t go see it. In fact, I made it a point to deliberately avoid it, mainly because I’m not a fan of propaganda movies … Continue reading
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Guillermo del Toro on metaphor and small decisions
As I mentioned in passing in an earlier post, I saw Hellboy II: The Golden Army on opening night with a couple of friends. I thought it was a great movie, a lot of fun (especially the scene involving a … Continue reading
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Festival of Faith and Writing – Jeffrey Overstreet – “Through a Screen Darkly”
(Sorry for the delay in blogging the rest of my notes from the Festival. I’ll try to get the last four or five posts up sometime in the next week or two.) Jeffrey’s second session was Through a Screen Darkly: … Continue reading
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Movies, Hope, Language, and the Rabbit Room
For some reason, I have a hard time trying to explain my view on art to people who hold the same viewpoint I grew up with. It’s easy for me to get frustrated talking about art with someone who thinks Harry Potter is evil, or who doesn’t agree with Philippines 4:8 (“whatsoever things are true”) and wants all their movies to present a fake, sanitized view of life, to be like animated Thomas Kinkade paintings. So I’m glad when guys like Andrew Peterson, a friend that I’ve had this discussion with several times, take time to try to explain their views to others. Continue reading
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Two new favorites
My list of favorite movies of 2007 will be coming soon – I’m holding off on posting it until I’ve had more time to mull over Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood which I just saw with a friend … Continue reading
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Film+Faith blog-a-thon
My recent post about Match Point was my contribution to the Film+Faith blog-a-thon, but because I was on vacation I didn’t have a chance to link to the other submissions. So, here they are. Check them out, when you have … Continue reading
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