Glass doors and the loneliness of Kirk
The first two Star Trek movies are very different from one another, in many ways. But despite these differences, they do have some interesting parallels. For example, both films depict Kirk not as a captain — at least not at first — but as an admiral who takes command of the Enterprise when a crisis arises; and in both cases, the captain who relinquishes command of the ship is dead or “missing” by the end of the movie, due to an act of self-sacrifice.
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Glass doors and the loneliness of Kirk
Newsbites: The hiding-in-Canada edition!
1. Vancouver-based artist Stan Douglas is developing a film based on Raymond Chandler’s Playback ; it will take place in the 1950s and concern “an American woman who crosses into Canada to escape imprisonment for a murder she didn’t commit, only to find herself in the same situation - prime suspect in a murder - in Vancouver.” Douglas plans to shoot against a green screen and fill in the backgrounds — including the downtown Granville Street strip — with computer-generated locations based on archival photographs. — Hollywood North Report , Globe and Mail 2.
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Paul Verhoeven to direct a Christian thriller?
Paul Verhoeven is known for many things.
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Paul Verhoeven to direct a Christian thriller?
Nine does not always equal 9
Similar titles. Similar posters. (As far as Apple’s movie trailer page is concerned, at any rate.) Similar release dates
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Another Post-Apocalypse Flick . . .
With one post-apocalyptic thriller on the big screen, another is in the works.
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Another Post-Apocalypse Flick . . .
‘Dogma,’ ‘Life of Brian’: Best Movies for Christians!
If you were making a list titled “100 All-Time Best Movies for Christians,” where would you start? Probably not with the blasphemous Dogma , in which one character, a woman working at an abortion clinic, is allegedly the last living descendant of Christ. And probably not with the scathingly satirical (some would say heretical) Life of Brian
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A Newt, a Pope, and a Doc
Former House speaker and Newt Gingrich is shooting a documentary about Pope John Paul II’ s 1979 trip to Poland and how it helped to lay the groundwork for bringing down the Soviet Union, writes Dan Gilgoff of U.S. News & World Report on his God & Country blog
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How Sarah Connor made the war worse.
I watched The Terminator (1984) from start to finish for the first time in years last night, and I was amused by the opening title card’s declaration that this film would show us “the final battle” in the war between humans and machines. “The final battle”?
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Newsbites: The classic tales reimagined edition!
1. Kings , the TV series that puts a quasi-modernized spin on the biblical story of Saul and David, has definitely been cancelled, according to producer Bradford Winters.
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Passion producer making ‘religion-inflected’ Rwanda movie
Stephen McEveety , who may be best-known for producing a number of films with Mel Gibson including The Passion of the Christ , is developing a movie about the Rwandan genocide, says the Hollywood Reporter . McEveety’s production company, Mpower, has acquired Immaculee Ilibagiza’s religion-inflected autobiography, titled ” Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust ,” that tells of the author’s return to spend Easter with her Catholic family in 1994 when the Tutsi massacre took place.
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