Review: Mr. & Mrs. Smith (dir. Doug Liman, 2005)
First, for the handful of obsessive film buffs out there who never read the tabloids, Mr. & Mrs. Smith has nothing to do with the 1940s screwball comedy of that name directed by Alfred Hitchcock....
View ArticleComment: His Dark Materials: How the Grinch stole God
LAST YEAR, many Christians went out of their way to caution their fellow believers against over-reacting to the movie version of The Da Vinci Code. Yes, the film put forth a deeply problematic view of...
View ArticleReview: The Golden Compass (dir. Chris Weitz, 2007)
“That’s some pretty fast work, Miss Lyra.” So says an impressed Texan aeronaut to a young English girl after she befriends a depressed talking polar bear, inspires the bear to strike back against some...
View ArticleThe Golden Compass not so magnetic after all
Before it came out in theatres December 7, I used to tell people that I hoped the film version of The Golden Compass would be great — and I hoped it would flop. The original book — the first part of a...
View ArticleReview: Chuck & Buck (dir. Miguel Arteta, 2000)
The title indicates this is a story about two friends, but Chuck & Buck is mostly told from the point of view of Buck (Mike White), a childlike man in his late 20s whose mind seems at first to be...
View ArticleReview: About a Boy (dir. Chris & Paul Weitz, 2002)
Every story worth telling is ultimately about a girl, says Peter Parker in Spider-Man, but the makers of Hugh Grant’s latest star vehicle, About a Boy, might disagree. Yes, the film, which is already a...
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