(For those on the email list for this blog, sorry for the repost. My database was reset yesterday and I lost this post. So I had to load it again.) My favorite scene from the movie “Castaway” furnishes a great metaphor for Advent reflection. It’s the pivotal scene after Tom Hanks’s character has acclimated to [...]

I just saw 3:10 to Yuma. I watched it with a buddy and we both thought it was pretty good. The story was fine and the acting was excellent. I love a good western. By the way, the Movie Review Query Engine is a great site for finding reviews of movies you may be interested [...]

Last night I watched Pan’s Labyrinth. Good, good movie. Very dark, but beautiful, with a dash of gospel thrown in at the end. The Pale Man was one scary character. If I had seen a picture of him when I was a kid I would have never slept again.

We really liked Happy Feet. That’s based solely on one thing: the boys laughed a lot. They came hope trying to dance like a penguin. Sure, there were the usual adult messages and themes embedded in the funny stuff, but I didn’t pay much attention to all of that. I paid attention to the giggles. [...]

I don’t get Terence Malick movies. I didn’t get “The Thin Red Line.” I didn’t get “The New World.” The pace is way too slow and the loopy voiceovers don’t work for me.

I took the boys to see “Cars” on Friday afternoon. They loved the action and pretty colors and goofy voices. I loved the story. It spoke to me more than any movie has in a while.