My interview with Claire Asquith, author of Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare is up on GodSpy. Speaking with Claire over the phone for an hour was one of the funnest things I’ve ever done that I also got paid for. She is an incredibly intelligent, thoughtful, and fair-minded woman. She [...]

My two daughters and I went to the opening midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire last night. We loved it, I cried, and I also got royally freaked out more than once–Ralph Fiennes is one seriously creepy Voldemort. This isn't one that my eight-year-old is going to be seeing any [...]

Pardon me, but this proud mother must indulger herself a bit, no doubt by embarrassing her oldest son, who has just graduated from writing Shakespeare movie reviews for bardolatry.com (his profit: wonderful experience) to an actual paying gig over at my beloved GodSpy.com, edited by Angelo Matera and John Romanowsky. John’s first pub credit, [...]

Godspy has an important article about Christians making movies that holds firm parallels, alas, for Christians writing fiction. (For my comment on the article, see the left sidebar.) John Romanowsky has a related interview with dynamic Act One Director Barb Nicolosi–man, I’d like to can that woman’s energy!

Yep, you read that right. Here’s the scoop from the today’s Zenit article “Hollywood Finds Religion“:
20th Century Fox, for instance, has announced a movie based on John Milton’s epic poem “Paradise Lost,” the Guardian reported Oct. 26. Its producer, Vincent Newman, has pledged to keep the script faithful to the original 1667 text.
Making a film [...]