…ew Testament, the Greek physician Luke, a close friend of the Apostle Paul, writes, “I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning.” How can we know if this is true? How can we find out if the books of the New Testament are accurate, reliable records of the teachings of Jesus Christ? In a court of law, the burden of proof for denying the credibility of an eyewitness falls on those who wish to undermine that credib… Continue reading
…Testament, the Greek physician Luke, a close friend of the Apostle Paul, writes, “I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning.” How can we know if this is true? How can we find out if the books of the New Testament are accurate, reliable records of the teachings of Jesus Christ? In a court of law, the burden of proof for denying the credibility of an eyewitness falls on those who wish to undermine that cred… Continue reading
…dream, was mostly completed, she did a Google search to learn what to do next. Eventually, she sent 15 copies of her manuscript to potential interests and, to her utter amazement, quickly landed a huge deal with Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, one of the biggest young adult publishers in America. With increased motivation, she kept typing, typing, and typing until a tantalizing 4-part sequence of fictitious vampire romances was completed…. Continue reading
There have been innumerable books, websites, articles, and dissertations on J.R.R. Tolkien’s LORD OF THE RINGS – enough to fill a small library. Many have great merit, and I trust that the book we just wrote for Crossways, FRODO AND HARRY, will be among them. Matthew T. Dickerson’s book, FOLLOWING GANDALF, stands out among THE LORD OF THE RINGS library of books, websites, articles, and dissertations. It gives an easy to read, yet profound… Continue reading
…comparison with Bunyan’s work? I believe that the novel and the movie are becoming the greatest deception to blindside the evangelical church in the last 200 years! This is not overstatement. In a perceptive article in Books & Culture (Jan/Feb, 2010), Katherine Jeffrey recently evaluated the idea of comparing The Shack to Pilgrim’s Progress. Whereas Bunyan on virtually every page championed by metaphors orthodox theology and the… Continue reading
…awk. TALES FROM EARTHSEA is almost a four-star movie, though fans of the original novels probably will be upset by the movie’s changes to the original stories (the movie’s basic plot is taken loosely from the third and fourth books in a series of five novels). The beginning is a bit slow and mysterious, because it doesn’t reveal the details of Sparrowhawk’s quest until about halfway through the story. Interest is achieved, however, by piquing the… Continue reading
…n never capture an individual’s exact interpretation of characters in a book. In several cases, the movie far-eclipsed our memory of certain scenes . . . and that was a thrill. Moreover, the movie will visually “fill out” the books for their fans – adding a new dimension to their experience. The key to the success of THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING is this: Director Peter Jackson makes the audience like the characters and care what happens to them. Th… Continue reading
…he filmmakers should have heightened the tension and jeopardy in the story by bringing in Voldemort and his henchmen into the Triwizard Tournament more directly. This is a structural problem in perhaps all of the Harry Potter books. The author fails to provide a single antagonist for Harry and his friends throughout each story. She keeps pushing Voldemort and his henchmen into the background. That problem aside, the Harry Potter stories follow ar… Continue reading
…picture, but early on I think the writers decided that we shouldn’t imitate that fantastic musical. There was no comparison to the great quality of music in the original, in fact. Ours was more based on the L. Frank Baum “Oz” books. So we decided not to make it a musical, and just tell the fantastical tales that he had written about, but that one number was a tribute to the great “Wizard of Oz” movie. Q: Sam, in working with 3D for the first tim… Continue reading
…ar, at least six or seven of the top ten movies at the box office are science fiction or fantasy movies, with many of them stories involving comic book superheroes. About 100,000 people come here every year to celebrate comic books and all things related to the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres and to see the latest things Hollywood has to offer in the coming year, from the latest upcoming vampire movie or TV show to the latest superher… Continue reading
