Watching Bad Movies
In the same interview I mentioned in my previous entry, Ray Bradbury mentions that when he was young, he saw every movie that came out: “When I was seventeen,” he says, “I was seeing as many as twelve...
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In the interview entitled “Shooting Haiku in a Barrel,” Ray Bradbury talks about working on the screenplay for Something Wicked This Way Comes. He wrote the screenplay about two hours too long, and...
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For all of you who have struggled to make shadow puppets with your hands and once made something that looked a little bit like a rabbit:
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Chocolat
Last night, in lieu of our usual Bible study, we watched Chocolat. I had loaned our copy to a friend during Lent, which is the perfect time to watch the movie since that’s the setting of the story,...
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Yesterday afternoon, Moriah’s mom watched Aletheia (thanks, Mom!) while Moriah and I went to Ashland to see Scoop, the latest film from Woody Allen. It’s a mystery-comedy, something Allen has done...
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My parents are here on vacation. My dad has been helping me get my books unpacked and my office set up, and my mom has been relaxing, playing with Aletheia and visiting some secondhand stores with...
View ArticleLuther on Dancing
In Thomas Oden’s Crisis Ministries, volume 4 of his Classical Pastoral Care, he provides two fun quotations from Martin Luther on dancing: Where decency prevails, I let the wedding run its usual and...
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Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
The other night, Moriah and I watched Thirteen Conversations About One Thing. It’s a thoughtful film, well written, nicely directed, and well worth your time. Moriah and I found ourselves discussing...
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The Forgotten
While I’m on the subject of movies, last Friday Moriah, her mom, and I watched The Forgotten, which was, alas, forgettable. Like Secret Window, which Moriah and I watched last summer, it had a...
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Finding Neverland
A week ago Saturday, Moriah, her mom, and I watched Finding Neverland, a fictionalized version of the story of J. M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan. It was quite moving. J. Robert Parks said, “As I...
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