Pas si misérable. A review of ‘Les Misérables’
When all was said and done… I liked it. Musical theatre, and film adaptations of the like are not at all in my wheelhouse. In fact, the only musical I […]
Month: December 2012
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Tolkien and The Hobbit
http://www.thehobbit.com Unlike many of my friends who have read The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings half a dozen times each, taken or taught university courses on Tolkien’s oeuvre, and […]
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Lacrimas
I have spent a lot of time crying this afternoon. I’m crying right now, in fact. I’m not completely sure why. Tears for me are an anomaly, and I never […]
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‘Life of Pi’: a bit too ‘pie in the sky’
Here I discuss how both the film and the book offer a great opportunity for reflection on important religious questions, but that its false dichotomy of disenchantment/re-enchantment, rational science/irrational religion, […]