by Martha Brockenbrough | Nov 9, 2013 | Reviews
It’s no easy thing making an original-feeling World War II movie. The category for a long time was the Thomas Kinkade of cinema: at first idealized and false, though not without a certain kitschy appeal. Then came movies like Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan,...
by Martha Brockenbrough | Nov 2, 2013 | Features, What's Hot
Remember way back in 2007 when certain Catholics organized a boycott of The Golden Compass, an adaptation of the first of Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy? Their goal was to make the movie tank at the box office, which would then force the filmmakers to...
by Martha Brockenbrough | Oct 16, 2013 | Features, Staff Picks
Book people have a lot to look forward to this fall, including Ender’s Game, the Orson Scott Card story about children used as soldiers against invading aliens, and Catching Fire, the Hunger Games sequel about a young woman in post-apocalyptic America forced to fight...
