Earlier today I “co-hosted” BDK’s Movie Show with my friend, Kevin McCarthy, aka BDK. We discussed the importance of film scores and predicted tonight’s Golden Globes. To listen to the two segments, click here and then click on the two segments beside my name. There will hopefully be many more of these to come in [...]

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Every year I hear friends bemoan the state of the film industry and lament that there were so few good movies to see. And each year I look at them, mouth slightly agape, and wonder what planet they’re from.
Granted, my situation is somewhat unique. I will probably end 2008 having seen roughly 130 films — [...]

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I am proud to be a member of WAFCA and to have participated in this year’s voting. We logged more films than we all wish to count over the past few weeks, but I am absolutely thrilled with the results. No doubt you’ll be seeing a repeat of some of the following press release’s information [...]

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This is a piece I wrote for the film website Cinemattraction. To read the original review/interview, click here.
Short films are the vast, undiscovered country of filmmaking. Most viewers relegate themselves to feature films alone, inadvertently walling themselves off from the audacious power of the short film. It would be a supreme fallacy to assume that [...]

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I was recently accepted as a member of the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association. The WAFCA is comprised of DC-based film critics from television, radio, print and the internet.

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There is a belief among fans of “Star Trek” that each of the even numbered films are consistently first-class while each of the odd numbered films inevitably face lukewarm critical and fan reception. The proof would seem to be irrefutable.
My Academy Award predictions seem to follow a very similar, though reversed, pattern. The odd years [...]

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Christianity Today has come out with a two-part look at the best films 2007 had to offer. First it released its ten “most redeeming” films of the past year and on Friday it ran with its “The 2007 Critics’ Choice Awards.”
As a writer for Christianity Today Movies, I am happy to say that they are [...]

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Beliefnet, a website dedicated to multi-faith dialogue, has announced its nominees for Best Spiritual Film, Best Spiritual Performance and Best Spiritual Documentary. I was asked to be one of the judges. There are five nominees in each category, and each nominees is accompanied by an argument “for” and an argument “against” the particular film in [...]

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The complete list of nominees:

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1. THERE WILL BE BLOOD: There Will Be Blood, the story of a misanthropic oilman at the turn of the last century, is the sort of film you stumble out of, desperately searching for an adjective that is both descriptive enough to encompass your experience and distinctive enough to convey your stratosphere-bound senses. There [...]

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