In defense of The Hobbit

Thursday, February 7th, 2013 Posted in Film | 4 Comments »

Look, it's not like The Hobbit is Holy Scripture. It's not even, last I checked, part of the Apocrypha. It seems to me that the standard for judging Peter Jackson's film rendition, then, ought to be whether it succeeds as ...

The verisimilar edge

Friday, February 5th, 2010 Posted in Film | 3 Comments »

Listening to a local film critic's tired dismissal of the new film, Edge of Darkness, I was struck by the need, in film, literary, and art criticism just as much as in theological or architectural or epicurean criticism, for a ...

Book it

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 Posted in Film | 6 Comments »

I'm pretty sure that somewhere in the unofficial New Yorker film critic handbook there's a rule that goes something like this: If Christian faith is central to a film, don't be afraid to stoop to name-calling and character assassination. Thus ...

Does this cape make me look fat?

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 Posted in Film | 2 Comments »

My friend John Miller brings the smack on modern vampires. This may be a good way to sum it up: if your bloodsucker needs hair gel, he's really just a big thirsty sissy with bad teeth. In general, vampires ought ...

Heresy, thy name is Legion

Sunday, January 24th, 2010 Posted in Film, Theology | 3 Comments »

Perhaps you've seen commercials for the movie Legion, which appears to be two very different movies, depending on whether you've seen it advertised in the theater or on your television. On television, the premise appears to be that a host ...