Category: film
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what about “christian” movies?
Can you guess which independent film grossed the most at the box office in 2008? Slumdog Millionaire? That would be a good guess given how many Oscars it picked up on Sunday night, but no. Would you believe Fireproof? I learned this interesting trivia during NPR’s Weekend Edition on Saturday. In an insightful and balanced…
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happy saturday: frost/nixon
From my recent review of Frost/Nixon over at rednoW. What if Conan O’Brien landed a series of interviews with former President George W. Bush? And what if, towards the end of hours of slightly interesting political banter, the president admitted that there had been no real evidence to go to war with Iraq? Such an…
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happy saturday: oscar nominations
Anyone else dissapointed by this week’s Oscar nominees? To be honest, I hadn’t seen any of the Best Picture nominees but I’m having a hard time imagining any Brad Pitt movie (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) being worthy of 16 nominations. The list of nominees did prompt me to see Frost/Nixon last night and…
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happy saturday: rednoW
Some of you know that I get to contribute to rednoW, a website devoted to “the art of wonder”. A week or so ago the site was relaunched with a new design and a bunch of new content. There are lists and reviews of some favorite films and albums of 2008. I’m comfortable guaranteeing that…
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happy go lucky
Here’s the opening to my review for rednoW of Happy Go Lucky. In 1960 Disney Studios adapted a well-known children’s novel by Eleanor H. Porter into a film by the same name: Pollyanna. The character, a young orphan girl who finds the good in every situation, no matter how dire, became cultural shorthand for naive…
David W. Swanson 