Film
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I had skipped this when it first came out, having been less than happy with The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. But I'm half-planning to go see Voyage of the Dawn Treader, so I thought I ought to see PC, too. (Why? I don't know, exactly, it just seems that I should, but I…
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Has anybody seen Voyage of the Dawn Treader yet? And if so what did you think? We watched The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe last night. This was the third time I'd seen it, and my reaction overall is more or less the same as when it first came out: flawed but pretty good. I wish…
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…I should not have done that. I just read (while web-surfing with sandwich in hand) the description of a scene from the forthcoming final Harry Potter movies, and now I know something important about the movies which one wouldn't exactly know from reading the books. It will be a very moving scene–it was moving just to read…
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I'm embarrassed to say that I knew almost nothing about Ernest Shackleton until tonight. I knew that he was one of the explorers of one of the poles, but I didn't even know which one, and I didn't know whether he succeeded or failed, lived or died. Well, now I know, thanks to this excellent…
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Sunday Night Journal — May 16, 2010 I sat down this afternoon to resume work on the next installment of the memoir, and had written a few paragraphs when my wife offered me some lunch, which of course I accepted. Then we decided to eat in front of the television, something we haven’t done very…
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Les Choristes in French (click to go to IMDB entry, but watch out for spoilers). Not being any sort of serious film buff, I don’t know whether this is the work of a famous director, or anything about its reputation. But it’s good. We recently joined NetFlix, mainly because I had decided the time has…
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Sunday Night Journal — April 18, 2004 Certain anecdotal evidence, including particularly conversations with several of my children (ages sixteen to twenty-four), leads me to believe that Jews who have been almost hysterical in their insistence that The Passion of the Christ conveys and will foster anti-Semitism are fighting the wrong battle. My son John,…
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Sunday Night Journal — April 11, 2004 The phrase is my brother John’s description of Mel Gibson’s film The Passion of the Christ, and it’s the most apt I’ve heard. To dwell on the Passion on Easter Sunday may not seem appropriate, but that also is apt, I think, in this case, as I shall…
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Sunday Night Journal — January 4, 2004 I finally went to see The Return of the King. I have to begin any discussion of the Peter Jackson’s filmed version of The Lord of the Rings with the observation that it surely is the best possible screen treatment of the book. I do not mean that…
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