Saint Sarah Connor
Saturday, February 20th, 2010I miss Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I watched it when it was on TV and caught many episodes. Then I got season 1 on DVD for Christmas and used a gift card to buy season 2. And that’s it. It was canceled by Fox after only two seasons. Why? The simplest answer is that it [...]
God at Work in the World
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008John Piper has blogged on the book Peace Like A River so a few things are sure to happen: It will sell a bunch quickly. Amazon reviews will greatly multiply. Bloggers will review it to pieces and most will find it wonderful. Someone (or a few someones) will give one away on their blog. Such [...]
Fireproof: For Better or for Worse
Friday, November 21st, 2008My wife and I saw Fireproof the other evening. Why? Primarily, so we could have a night out, but also because we were both curious. Fireproof, in case you haven’t heard, is a film produced by Sherwood Pictures, a ministry of a Baptist church in Georgia, and was done with a budget of only about [...]
Mocu-documentaries
Monday, October 6th, 2008Bill Maher has jumped on the Michael Moore bandwagon by using the “documentary” film format to preach his own message. For Maher, he’s got an axe to grind with organized religion and so he’s made a film called Religulous intending to show how religion is bad for the world. My reaction to this announcement was [...]
Who Decides What People Watch
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008CT has an interview with Christine and Michael Swanson about their struggles to get theatrical distribution for their films. Go read it, it is an eye opener. This particularly caught my attention: [I]n those days before the big-screen arrival of Tyler Perry, studios tended to insist that there wasn’t much of a market for values-based, [...]
Invasion: The Battle For Earth
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008This is kind of like a mash up of all the recent sci fi films, because it is. Dr. E Boli, whoever he is, is a genius. Here’s the trailer: You can watch all five episodes here and I recommend you do!
Failed Safe
Monday, March 10th, 2008This weekend I picked up two films from the library that were related. The first one we watched was the classic The Day The Earth Stood Still. There’s a lot to say about the film but I’ll summarize. It was a powerful message in the middle of the Cold War that needed to be heard. [...]
Love Cloverfield (No Spoilers)
Saturday, January 26th, 2008I took my son to see Cloverfield for his birthday (happy birthday Ben). Okay, I did some other stuff for him too. Was Cloverfield worthy of the hype that lead up to it? Yea, I think it was. It was like and unlike any other film. The first person perspective may have been done (Blair [...]
Transformers…
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007More than meets the eye? Probably not. I watched the film with my son tonight after work. Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay are co-executive producers and Bay directed. I read a review that said the first half of the film is Spielberg and the second half is Bay and that turned out to be pretty [...]
Squeezing the Life out of Monty
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007I’d like to see him try this with Mohammad. To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either. – Jesus, Luke 6:29 If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. – [...]
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