February 26th, 2008
A discussion of the book/film of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men is going on over on the Yahoo discussion group, Literate Catholics Unite, and I thought it would do a bit of double duty for me to post here what I just posted there about this book/movie, both of which I regard as [...]
May 9th, 2007
Kevin has just posted a review of the 2006 documentary Jesus Camp on Catholicmoviesonline.com.
April 23rd, 2007
I’ve just posted a new review up on Catholic Movies Online of the TV biopic of the life of John Paul II starring Jon Voight.
It was very well done, you should check it out if you haven’t seen it.
The review is here.
March 29th, 2007
…in a sauna.
I’m not kidding.
This is a perfectly outrageous clip from Dame Edna’s show, filmed around the time of the release of Mel’s Hamlet, and posted on Mel’s MySpace page:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog&friendID=98949622
And in case you missed it, here’s our bardolatry review of Mel’s Hamlet, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, which I wrote back in 2002 or thereabouts.
And if [...]
March 26th, 2007
It took me awhile before I got around to seeing M. Night Shyamalan’s much-disparaged Lady in the water; virtually everyone I know who’d seen the film warned me against a viewing. The flick even managed to pick up two ignominious “Razzie” awards (the opposite of the Oscars, to put it kindly), both of which went [...]
