The Intersection of Faith and Culture
James Franco stars as Oscar Diggs (Oz) in Disney’s new movie Oz the Great and Powerful. The film represents a prequel to the original Warner Brothers film The Wizard of Oz (1939) starring Judy Garland. I was privileged to view the film with a member of the visual effects team, and without being too […]
A story told well is one that reaches beyond its own literal limits, and gestures toward something worth having outside of these boundaries. For instance, later readers of ancient Greek and Roman epic were able to find in these stories — often grim stories about concrete affairs such as bloody […]
When CS Lewis was a child he had an imaginary land called “Animal Land” that he would often make up stories about. One of his favourite characters was a heroic mouse named Peter. Sound familiar? Lewis insisted to the end that he did not write the Narnia books to be […]
It’s difficult to go a week without hearing about Gandalf’s first visit to Bag End, the intrusive company of dwarves with confusing names, or the moment Bilbo first encounters the Ring of Power. As a follow-up to the incredible Lord of the Rings series, The Hobbit is set to hit […]
The day hurricane Katrina hit we were sitting around tables at a restaurant somewhere outside of Atlanta. I finished my pizza, fidgeted with the salt shaker, and glanced at the corner of the room where a television hung, fixed on CNN. I remember the text as it crawled across the […]
As the saying goes, all wonderful journeys must inevitably come to an end. Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, the rousing final chapter in his Batman trilogy, which began with 2005’s Batman Begins and spectacularly continued in 2008’s The Dark Knight, is a propulsive ten tonne juggernaut of a motion picture; slightly lumbering out […]