April 8, 2006
What sells

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 […]

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April 4, 2006
Get upset

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 […]

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March 7, 2006
Then and now

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 -- […]

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March 5, 2006
Oscar night

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 […]

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February 2, 2006
End of the Spear controversy

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 […]

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January 24, 2006
Is Miramax trying to bury a pro-soldier movie?

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 […]

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January 24, 2006
End of the Spear

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 […]

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January 21, 2006
End of the Spear

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" […]

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January 13, 2006
Flight 93

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 […]

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January 12, 2006
I know the feeling

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. […]

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