I rarely bother to review something like this, but this one annoyed me so much that I wanted to write about it. If this had been a production for YouTube by a bunch of teenagers, it might be regarded as good. I don’t mean production quality. There were some decent effects for the combat. But…
It’s rare that archeology finds specific material about secondary characters, but in this case it seems to have happened. A tomb recently discovered in Rome bears an inscription identifying as belong to Marcus Nonius Macrinus, who inspired the main character in the movie Gladiator . You can read the full story via the link provided….
I hadn’t intended to watch this one because it didn’t sound all that interesting to me, and also because it didn’t sound like there was any reason for the controversy it has aroused amongst Christians. My wife, however, put it in our Netflix queue, and it duly showed up. She thought it would be something…
I ran across the first and fifth of this series of DVDs on our local public library shelf while looking for other mysteries and took it home on an impulse. It was a good impulse! This is not the sort of humorous light stuff that I often watch or read for relaxation, nor is it…
I finally got around to seeing this movie, having picked it up on Netflix. No, not from Amazon.com, thought that is the link I’m providing above! It was well worth watching. Denzel Washington is, as always, wonderful, with a good supporting cast. The story flows well and feels authentic. I note that some viewers have…
I finally managed to watch this movie a few days ago, and found it to be pretty much what I expected. It was a very limited plot designed to connect the various violent scenes and special effects. Fortunately those were good. It’s nice to get this without paying for it (Netflix), but if you’d like…
. . . but not the one in the Bible. When this show first came out there were calls to boycott it, and I e-mailed my local NBC affiliate to support their decision to go ahead and air the show. I saw the first episode, and truly was not impressed with the show. There was…
Dorothy Sayers’s Lord Peter mysteries are among my favorite mystery books, so I was happy to find this collection of videos. I have to confess that I really didn’t like Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, but Edward Petheridge is much more convincing in the part. Harriet Walter is a convincing Harriet Vane. The story…
Most of the time when I don’t like a movie I just don’t review it. But in this case, I make an exception. I like many Disney movies. They’re generally fun, you don’t have to take them too seriously, and yet they’re at least enchanting. In this case, I’m not sure whether there was a…
Over the weekend my wife watched (or started to watch) three movies, and I thought I would comment on them. First was X-Men: The Last Stand. Just like it’s two predessors, this was a horrible movie, and I didn’t finish watching it. My wife managed to get to the end by skipping forward a lot….
