- Love and Cookies Save the Day It’s barely tinged with punk and splintered with a soundtrack ruled by Spoon, the lovely post-punk-rockers. And Will Ferrell! Sweet Will! He surprises me with the depth of this role: Stranger than Fiction is to Will Ferrell as Punch Drunk Love is to Adam Sandler. This movie perfectly plays the “Would you rather” game, mocking […]
- The Beatles Needed a Black Man I saw Across the Universe in the cinema this weekend. It’s a psychedelic trip through the 1960’s, a mediocre love story, and it’s all strung together by a wild assortment of Beatles tunes. The film is a musical, but not with a plateful of cheese, as I find most musicals. Across the Universe is spectacular […]
- Evan Almighty Responses I took the youth group to see the opening of Evan Almighty last night and laughed my little head off. It is a lovely film with simple truths about family, kindness, and God’s love for creation. Morgan Freeman made me cry happy tears at the very end, because he plays a really tender Daddy-God. I […]
- Why Björk Will Never Act Again Dancer in the Dark premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. At the Cannes, the film was awarded the festival’s most prestigious Palme d’Or award, while Björk won best actress. Unless you’re a fan of rather obscure indies, this film probably flew under your radar screen. But Dancer in the Dark has affected me […]
- “I Don’t Believe in Love” “I don’t believe in love. I believe in God. Because He is bigger.” -Cristina Ionescu, a street-dwelling teenager in Romania I spent a significant part of this V-Day in class watching a documentary called, Children Underground. It was both beautiful and terrible. It presents the gritty lives of five Romanian street-dwelling children, and their fight […]