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Blog Goals 2017

03/01/2017 0 Comment

Flickr. Photo by Hey Paul Studios. CC Licensing.
I hope everyone had a wonderful New Year. I’m sure that, for many, it was nice to say “so long” to 2016, and I hope that the new year is treating you kind. Our holidays were great, filled with time with family and friends and some chances to recharge our batteries. I’m still on vacation from work for another week, and I’m hoping to use this time to really gear up for the coming 12 months so I can attack 2017 afresh next week.
I thought it might be..

Watch: Ten clips from The Purple Rose of Cairo

02/01/2017 0 Comment

“Heaven, I’m in Heaven…”
I just discovered that ten clips from my official second-favorite film of all time, The Purple Rose of Cairo, were posted to Fandango’s Movieclips YouTube channel about two weeks ago. The clips contain about 28 minutes of footage altogether, or just over a third of the film’s 82-minute running time. I wouldn’t recommend watching them without seeing the entire film first, but they do contain some of the film’s funniest and most poignant moments. Check them out below (thou..

Box office: Rogue One is now the #2 movie of 2016 in North America (but only the #9 movie worldwide — so far)

02/01/2017 0 Comment

Rogue One ruled the box office for a third straight week as 2016 came to an end.
The Star Wars prequel earned an estimated $49.5 million in North American theatres between Friday and Sunday. That raises the film’s domestic total to $424.9 million and makes it the second-highest grossing film of the year in North America — behind Finding Dory — and the 14th-highest grossing film of all time domestically.
Overseas, it’s a slightly different story. Rogue One has earned $350 million to date internat..

2017 Film Journal

02/01/2017 0 Comment

As per my 2016 Journal, videos and DVDs are in italics. Films I saw for the first time have an asterisk (*) next to them. Not counting extras and promo items.
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Jan 1 — The Other Half [2016] *
Jan 3 — Unless [2016] *

Watch: New clips and a featurette for Scorsese’s Silence

02/01/2017 0 Comment

Nearly three decades in the making, Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Silence is finally playing in a few American theatres, and it will expand to the rest of the continent over the next two weeks. To pique the interest of prospective moviegoers, Paramount has released a new featurette on Scorsese’s “passion” for the project, as well as a few clips.
Here is the featurette:

At least three clips from this incredibly challenging film have surfaced online too.
In this one, Fathers Rodrigues (Andrew G..

The top ten posts at FilmChat in 2016

01/01/2017 0 Comment

Happy New Year!
Last year, for the first time, I compiled two lists of my most-viewed blog posts from the year that had just ended: one list covered the top ten posts from this blog’s entire archive, while the other covered the top ten posts that had been written in 2015.
Now it’s time for the 2016 lists. And here they are:
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The 10 most-viewed posts in 2016, regardless of when they were written:
1. History and tradition in movie depictions of the cross (April 2013)
This one’s a perennial, and t..

Same Kind of Different as Me release date postponed again

01/01/2017 0 Comment

Just a quick update regarding the release of an upcoming “faith-based” film.
Deadline is reporting that Same Kind of Different as Me, based on the memoir by Ron Hall, Denver Moore and Lynn Vincent, has been dropped by Paramount Pictures, which was going to release the film in February. The film will now be released by Pure Flix Entertainment, the studio behind God’s Not Dead, on October 20, 2017.
This is the second time the film — which stars Greg Kinnear, Renee Zellweger, Djimon Hounsou and Jon..

My favorite films of 2016

30/12/2016 0 Comment

Conventional wisdom holds that 2016 was, to use the technical term, a dumpster fire. I’m not going to argue against that; it was a year in which American culture finally curdled and icons were taken from us at an alarming rate. But bad times make for great art, and 2016 was another wonderful year of cinema. Unlike other years, in which the majority of great releases were clustered around the fall months, my list for favorite films of 2016 includes films that were released throughout the calendar..

Happy Christmas Eve

24/12/2016 0 Comment

Photo via Vlickr, Jori Samonen. CC Licensing.
Ever since I was a child, Christmas Eve has meant more to me than Christmas Day.
As a child, it was because Christmas Eve was when we would load up the car, go to my grandparents and open gifts with my cousins. It was that night — and the lead into Christmas morning — that embodied the holiday for me the most. Treats on the counter. One grandfather excitedly playing Santa. The other calmly reading Luke’s account of the Christmas story. A fire roaring..

The Best Films of 2016: Empathy in Action

23/12/2016 0 Comment

What animated the most enduring films of 2016? While our nation suffered from our inability to empathize with the Other, thankfully the finest filmmakers reminded us how compelling compassion remains. Empathy turned a ‘small’ film like Moonlight into an immediate masterpiece. Not a shot, gesture, or line is wasted in Barry Jenkins’ gorgeous triptych. The evolution of Chiron across the mean streets of Miami communicated with such clarity why Black Lives Matter.

The West Texas plains of Toby and ..