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Entries from May 1, 2003 - June 1, 2003
Bruce Almighty
Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2003 in Movie Reviews
[Our Sunday Visitor, May 27, 2003]
People may disagree over whether a glass is half empty or half full, but both sides have to admit that it's about half what it could be. "Bruce Almighty" is about half of "It's a Wonderful Life," the 1939 classic that it admires so much. On the plus side, it's got Jim Carrey in fine form, crackling with better-than-average lines and excellent timing. I'm not a fan of Scary Carrey, although some viewers prefer the hypermanic vicious Jim of earlier films.
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Matrix Reloaded, A Mighty Wind, Down with Love
Posted Saturday, May 17, 2003 in Movie Reviews
[Our Sunday Visitor, May 19, 2003]
The Matrix Reloaded
George Lucas, watch your back: the Wachowski brothers have gone and made a Star Wars movie. The writing-directing team that gave us “The Matrix” (1999) is back with “The Matrix Reloaded.” It’s got a multi-level industrial hideout for the good guys. It’s got giant walking robot thingies. It’s got grandiose background music. It’s got gray-haired councilors saying grim and ponderous things. It’s got bold crews on ships—not a space ships, but ones that travel inside the earth, so I guess they’re dirt ships.
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The Matrix of Reality
Posted Monday, May 12, 2003 in Movie Reviews, Christian Life
[Christianity Today Online, May 11, 2003]
If you can read this, you're probably not waiting in line at a movie theater. If you don't know why people might be waiting in line at a movie theater, you need to come out of that fallout shelter. Fans have been anxiously anticipating the release of The Matrix Reloaded ever since the house lights came up at the end of 1999's blockbuster, The Matrix.
The Matrix is surely the most overanalyzed movie since they invented Christian film critics.
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Jane Juska
Posted Friday, May 9, 2003 in Marriage and Family, Gender
[National Review Online, May 9, 2003]
Got big plans for Mother's Day? Candy and flowers, hugs and kisses? Maybe snapping some heartwarming photos of Grandma with the multiple generations of progeny gathered all around?
Boy, are you out of it. Didn't you know that playing with grandchildren is something women do just to keep themselves from thinking about how they've wasted their lives?
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Ready for the Apocalypse
Posted Tuesday, May 6, 2003 in Christian Life
I blush to say that I was one of the people who thought Y2K might mean a world's end-- some kind of ending anyway. Not to the extent of a friend who talked about converting all her assets to gold coins
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