This is an abridged version of a review I wrote for Christianity Today Movies. To read the rest of this review, click here.
To call the town of Falfúrrias, New Mexico, population 73, off the beaten path is a colossal understatement. The tight-knit Latino and Native American farming community is isolated in the high desert with […]
Entries from March 2007
Tortilla Heaven
March 16th, 2007 · Comments Off
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300
March 9th, 2007 · Comments Off
300 is an orgy of gore, a blood-letting on a titanic scale, a ballet of butchery in which half-naked men and the torrents of blood they elicit move in perfect, slow-motion choreography to a thunderous soundtrack.
And I loved every minute of it.
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Zodiac
March 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off
Strike two for David Fincher.
Seven was a phenomenal and twisted noir thriller and Fight Club was one of the seminal films of the 90s—a post-modern masterpiece. But something happened after those two gems. Panic Room didn’t suck, to be certain, but it was hardly a great film. And now we’re given Zodiac, marketed as a […]
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