“Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I don’t want to confront him. I know he’s real. I have seen his work.” This line is spoken in the early scenes of No Country for Old Men, a Coen Brothers movie that’s been out for 10-plus years now. I saw […]
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Chappie
You know the word “chap” as a British-ism, like “bloke” or “mate,” a casual reference to a male acquaintance. The diminutive form, “chappie,” would suggest an added level of bonhomie. The words (“chap” and “chappie”) have currency in South Africa, which, in futuristic vision, is the setting of a 2015 movie titled Chappie. In the movie, the sobriquet is […]
Read more...Silence
Liam Neeson has just the right kind of face for the concerned sincerity that you would expect the devil to have. He was well-cast in this Martin Scorcese movie. Silence is about two kinds of silence: the putative silence of God about His own existence, and then that silence requited by man’s. In the early […]
Read more...Copperhead
Copperhead is a movie on Amazon Prime. I stumbled across it, and found it to be a gem. It’s set during the Civil War, and that made me skeptical at first. Am I going to get a long condescending lecture on how slavery is bad? But I quickly saw that there would be more […]
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I looked forward to seeing the movie “Dunkirk.” I even went to see it at a movie theater; unusual for me. It seemed to start off weird, though, and never quite recovered. It was almost as if they were trying to minimize the heroic stuff. It also felt a bit like they were trying to drag […]
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