Just for the record, I went to the local Circuit City yesterday after work to pick up "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" on DVD. The movie had been released Tuesday and Circuit City was selling it for a mere $13.99. Unfortunately, I failed. They were completely sold out. On […]
It seems that the trailer for the upcoming dramatization of the 9/11 attacks, "United 93," has some people upset. In New York City, where 9/11 remains an open wound, the response was even more dramatic. The AMC Loews theater on Manhattan's Upper West Side took the rare step of pulling the trailer from its screens […]
I've said before that I didn't watch the Oscars Sunday night. I didn't even know which had won Best Picture until Monday afternoon. However, after checking out a list of the winners, I thought a little history might be in order. 1989 (62nd) MUSIC (Original Song) * "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid -- […]
I'm not watching them, though I did briefly find myself catching a glimpse when I flipped by and thought I had found a Wallace & Gromit cartoon to watch. It turns out it was the Academy Awards and I kept watching long enough to see Reese Witherspoon (hubba, hubba) announce that Wallace & Gromit had […]
Today's New York Times has an article on some of the controversy surrounding the movie "End of the Spear." As I've written before, I think the film is a really good, moving film that, though religious, is not preachy. Shortly after I published my review of the film, I got an e-mail from a reader […]
I saw "The Great Raid" when it was in theaters. Though it wasn't the greatest WWII movie of the past decade, it was a solid film that cast American soldiers in a positive light. The film was shot in 2002, but sat on a shelf until last year. There was a lot of grumbling that […]
I just got back from watching "End of the Spear" in the theater. It's an excellent, moving film. Frankly, I'm even more befuddled now, after having seen the movie, than I was before at the complaints of some reviewers that the film is prosletyzing, preachy and in-your-face religious. Frankly, I can't imagine making a movie […]
I plan on seeing "End of the Spear" Monday night, but decided to check out some of the reviews for it over at RottenTomatoes.com, a review aggregator. Needless to say, that hostility toward Christian and religious content isn't limited to Hollywood studios, but also appears to run rampant among movie critics. "End of the Spear" […]
The movie based on the heroes of United Flight 93 is slated for release on April 28. You can check out the trailer here. The trailer doesn't show you a whole lot of the film, instead focusing more on dialogue and sound effects. It has a greater emotional impact than it would if they'd shown […]
One of the bloggers over at the Kotaku videogame site arranged for an e-mail interview with the world's worst director, Uwe Boll. I ended up sending Uwe Boll about 15 questions, none of which could be possibly answered with a single word. He responded within the day, and managed to answer most with little more. […]