Lion v. Crocodile v. Water Buffalo

Does the calf live? You’ll have to wait till the end of the video to discover the bloody (?) truth.

[H/T: My sis]

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Thoughts on Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ

This comes perhaps four years late. But such a tardiness is not without design. I have been quite resistant to viewing The Passion, to some degree from “purist” notions. Not purist in the sense of the silly spats among Orthodox as to whether such a bloody portrayal of the Passion was in keeping with “true” [...]

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New Batman Trailer

[Oh dear sweet movie gods! Ledger looks darkly fabulous in this role!]

[I know this is Lent and all, but, hey, it's only a trailer and the movie isn't out till 18 July]

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Man of Constant Sorrow

Man of Constant Sorrow Lyrics
How to Play Man of Constant Sorrow
From the music video, O Brother Where Art Thou:

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Into Great Silence

“Into Great Silence” (auf Deutsch: Die Grosse Stille) became available on Netflix, and so it arrived to our home in the mail today. I haven’t seen it yet, but I’m really excited. As I did for Ostrov, I’ll probably try to get some of the parish guys together to see it.
I visited [...]

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Ostrov Has Come

Well, I got in the mail today, my copy of Ostrov (The Island) (link is official movie site in Russian only; the IMDb link is here; and you can order it from Amazon here, but ensure that you are ordering the NTSC version). The movie is only in Russian, but the distributor included [...]

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300

Went and saw the movie 300 with my friends, Tripp and Trish, and Justin and Mae, and Sarah.  They had reconstituted the Justice League of Nerdy Geeks (or is it Needy Gerks, I can’t remember) for an outing to the movies, but unfortunately I did not get the email till I got home (can’t access [...]

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Classicist Victor Davis Hanson on the Movie “300″

VDH’s Private Papers::History and the Movie “300″
300, of course, makes plenty of allowance for popular tastes, changing and expanding the story to meet the protocols of the comic book genre. The film was not shot on location outdoors, but in a studio using the so-called “digital backlot” technique of sometimes placing the actors against blue [...]

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More on St. Nicholas

Nicholas of Myra - The Official Motion Picture Website
(I hold on to my reservations, but the site is tres kewl.)
[H/T: Too many blogs to count.]

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A List of Jesus Movies

Check out the Jesus Movies @ Reel Bible. Many links to purchase the various formats of the movies.

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The Christmas Special That Almost Wasn’t

From USATODAY.com comes an interesting article about The Christmas classic that almost wasn’t. That’s right, the November 1965 “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”
When CBS bigwigs saw a rough cut of A Charlie Brown Christmas in November 1965, they hated it.
“They said it was slow,” executive producer Lee Mendelson remembers with a laugh. There were concerns [...]

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Women, Childbirth, and the Gospel

Those who take offense at Paul for these words:
“But women will be saved through childbearing–if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety” (1 Timothy 2:15).
Fail to remember that those words are connected to these words:
“While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her [...]

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Life in the Matrix: Determinisms and Free Will

Well, I’m apparently the last one in the world to do so, but last night I saw The Matrix Reloaded. Man, oh, man. A worthy sequel to the original, in my opinion. There were a couple of problems, for me. The technical effects were both not as flawless as the first [...]

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