“Christian” and “Family” Movie Guides
Posted on February 11, 2012 by James RileyBecause a boo-boo index is easier than an actual review.. Quite a few well-meaning folk have set up ministries, large and small, aimed at reviewing film and television with an eye to how appropriate the content is for Christian and family audiences. In roundly criticizing them, as I am about to do, I am aware […]Continue Reading »
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The Very Idea Of It
Posted on December 10, 2011 by James RileyIn the BBC adaption of the Elizabeth Gaskell novel, Wives and Daughters, a rumpled country Squire Hamley played by Michael Gambon, anxiously makes a bid for the help of Miss Molly Gibson (Justine Waddell) in the care of Squire Hamley’s ailing wife. Unfortunately, Miss Gibson’s step mother, using Molly as a chess piece, insists the […]Continue Reading »
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Margin Call
Posted on October 30, 2011 by James RileyWell, we will be screening the 2nd episode of “Courage, New Hampshire” tonight and I took a little insomnia time last night to watch J.C. Chandor’s financial suspense film, Margin Call. As pure story, it’s very, very tight stuff. A risk analyst at a major investment bank discovers something very scary in the CDOs (Collateralized debt obligations) the firm was […]Continue Reading »
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Innocence: Improbable or Impossible?
Posted on July 26, 2011 by James RileyI always knew the character of Sarah Pine would be a bit of a risk. Our Producer Jonathan Wilson even wondered, on first read, whether she was “all there.” I explained that I saw her as a young woman obsessed with applied theology as a hobby, in a way we can’t quite imagine today this side of an Amish after glow […]Continue Reading »
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History is alive and redemptive
Posted on June 29, 2011 by Randy GibsonIn 1968 my parents took my younger brother Dave and I on a six week adventure in a truck and camper. I was 11 years old and my brother was 9. We traversed the United States across it’s mid section and headed up the historic east coast and into French Canada visiting Montreal. We then […]Continue Reading »
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