movies

Lust, Caution

December 10, 2010 Culture

Bad title, good movie.  Really good, in fact.  Compelling, surprising, brutally honest.  Ang Lee directs the insanely appealing Wei Tang in a story of sex and espionage in World War II-era Shanghai. On one level, this is just a modern reworking of Hitchcock’s masterpiece Notorious, but it does go deep into the human psyche and [...]

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Our Fathers: God on “Justified”

June 14, 2010 Culture

“We know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ.”  Galatians 2:16 Sigmund Freud believed that God was no more than a projection of our ideal father onto the heavens.  Myself, I think it’s exactly the other way around.  There’s no particular reason I can [...]

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A Couple of Interviews

April 20, 2010 Culture

There are two new and interesting interviews with me online now – interesting to me anyway!  One’s over at PJTV where I spoke with the lovely Danika Quinn about the Tea Party and the way it’s treated by the media. The other interview is about Summit Entertainment’s movie option on The Long Way Home.  That [...]

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2012

March 27, 2010 Culture

Weekend’s here so it’s time to recommend yet another mindless entertainment.  Finally got around to seeing 2012 and it was not bad at all.  Wonderful special effects, plus good performances. Excellent pro-father attitude with an underlying anti-feminist or at least non-feminist theme.  Very refreshing.  Plus the environmental disaster that engulfs the earth has nothing to [...]

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KOC Comment

March 13, 2010 Culture

Just a quick comment on this week’s Klavan on the Culture.  I’ve done my mock Oscar routine a couple of times before, once for the LA Times, once either on a blog or for Big Hollywood, I’m no longer sure.  Every time I do it, I feel a momentary twinge of melancholy for the simple [...]

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A Good Education

February 24, 2010 Culture

I’m a bit embarrassed to say I stayed away from this movie because I assumed it was part of Hollywood’s ongoing attempt to normalize child sexuality and win sympathy for child molesters.  I have friends who believe this is actually some kind of conspiracy.  I don’t – but I do believe it’s a real phenomenon, [...]

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