First Things likes The Sinner’s Guide to NFP!
Reviewer Christine Emba says in First Things: What especially recommends The Sinner’s Guide to a broader audience is Fisher’s ability to use NFP as a starting point to engage with the larger and more...
View ArticleHollywood is Lady Tremaine: Why I love Branagh’s Cinderella
Saw it, liked it! I agree with just about everything Steve Greydanus says here. I do think the movie would be judged a bit more critically if it had been made in any other decade. Since it dropped out...
View ArticleWorth another look: Joe Versus the Volcano
“Dear god, whose name I do not know, Thank you for my life. I forgot… how BIG… thank you. Thank you for my life.” The scene works because it shows so nicely how change of heart really comes about in...
View Article7 video games, reviewed by my kids
Hey, who wants to talk about SOMETHING ELSE? How about vidya games? My kids play games on the Wii, PS2, and occasionally the iPad and PC. We have tons of the Lego Wii games, and they were all the rage...
View ArticleRoald Dahl > John Steinbeck (up to a point)
Today was Roald Dahl Day. You’ve probably read all the famous books by him — James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches (which is seriously disturbing), The BFG, The...
View ArticleThe lady was sad, and MAD. (We showed the kids an opera!)
My kids’ experience with opera comes entirely from Bugs Bunny, and we really wanted them to branch out. So, with great trepidation, we showed them Don Giovanni last weekend … and they loved it. More...
View ArticleWorth Watching Again: The Edge
The great part of this deft, brisk movie is that you can totally ignore these existential themes of being lost and being found, having direction and having a reason to live, and just watch it because...
View ArticleI’m reading, I’m watching, I’m listening to …
I’m reading . . . A Case of Conscience by James Blish (1958). It turns out that the bland title has prevented anyone else in my house from picking this book up, and they had no idea it’s a Catholic...
View ArticleI’m reading, I’m watching, I’m listening to . . .
I’m reading . . . Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith. Fourth in the Arkady Renko series that began with the brilliant Gorky Park, about which I said this: Maybe because it was so popular when it came...
View ArticleReading, watching, listening to …
I’m reading … When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris Sedaris is the master of the short, comic, grotesque personal essay. Are his rambling ideas connected, or is he just really good at...
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