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Da Vinci Review
Saturday, May 20th, 2006

I had not expected to go see this movie. My wife had enjoyed the book and wanted to see the movie, so I went along. She looked my way several times as if to gauge my reaction during several scenes.
If one needs theological refutations to most of the claims in this movie they can start [...]

USA Today has a report on a summer “thriller”, Snakes On A Plane. The movie already has an Internet fan base, but apparently the producers feared a PG-13 rating would keep viewers from going:
Additional scenes were shot in March with more gore, nudity and profanity so the PG-13 rating would become an R, the better [...]

North Country
Saturday, November 5th, 2005

After a wonderful lunch at the Ocean Club in Columbus, the Mrs. and I went to see North Country, starring Charlize Theron and Sissy Spacek.
Based on a true story, North Country is about the women who worked in an iron mine in Minnesota and in particular one woman who decided not to handle the nasty [...]

Flightplan Ruffles the Thin-Skinned
Thursday, September 29th, 2005

Reuters reports: “Labor unions representing most of the nation’s 90,000 flight attendants have urged their members to boycott a new Jodie Foster film that portrays a flight attendant and a U.S. air marshal as terrorists.”
The Missus and I saw Flightplan during our last day of vacation. Part of the suspense was wondering if the whole [...]

Rednecks and a Movie
Saturday, June 25th, 2005

Room service serving beer and wine to another at 11am. An old man with a gray and white beard down to his belt buckle. Women in cowboy hats and spaghetti-strap halter-tops. Twenty-something girls with their own bikes. A truck with a lift kit and a front bumper bent inward at the middle.
This evening though, I [...]