Category: Movies
I make no apology for deriving most of my personal theology from the movies.
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thoughts on Brokeback
There was an interesting barrage of OpEds in the Denver Post last weekend concerning the film Brokeback Mountain, the now nearly infamous gay cowboy movie. The matter in question was whether or not to actually see the film if you are, in fact, not gay.
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Breckenridge Film Festival, 2005
A few weekends ago, I drove up into the mountains of Colorado. Was I going camping, you ask?
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Decuple Word Reviews
Here are a series of reviews I started as a bit of a challenge. The idea was to write the entire review in ten (hence, “decuple”) words or less. I considered the movie title to count as only one word. Oh, and sometimes I had to get clever with hyphenated words to keep the word…
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Pop culture and the Canon
Guest reader Sarah’s comment on my blog post about movies referenced in Christian books got me to thinking.
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WAH movie index
As most of you know by my annoying name-dropping, I’ve been reading Wild at Heart.
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The Hero and The Wilderness
I was struck by the power of the following image in Batman Begins:
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Layer Cake
Part of the 2005 USA Film Festival
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The Works
“Just so you know, I’m a mess.” Part of the 2005 USA Film Festival)
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some thoughts on M. Night
At the root of being human is a recognition that we are finite, and thus vulnerable. This recognition doesn’t go away when we “grow up,” it just gets subverted and worked out differently.
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Word Wars
Word Wars was a little like Spellbound but a lot like Cinemania.