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Note: The following post contains spoilers.The 007 saga has always been known for its escapist approach to story-telling. Traditional Bond stands for "Queen and Country," but we could hardly consider... Read more
If you're looking for a good movie to watch with the family (or just generally), Secondhand Lions is worth looking up. The story, though a little quirky, is both entertaining... Read more
"Nothing is more likely to become garbage than orange rind; but for as long as anyone looks at it in delight, it stands a million triumphant miles from the trash... Read more
"The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again." - Alan PatonWilliam Golding's Lord of the Flies is, in every sense of... Read more "I coulda had class - I coulda been a contender," complains a desperate Terry Malloy (played by Marlon Brando) in one of the most iconic movies of the last century.On... Read more
Like Frankenstein, Dracula, and any number of other classical works, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has suffered from its portrayals in pop-culture. The... Read more
Christopher Hitchens once noted that the time he most questioned his atheism was when listening to Bach. Bach's music, he noted, could be so stirring that he was occasionally tempted... Read more
Recommending Casablanca may seem like a cop-out, since it's considered by many to be the greatest American film of all time. However, many people are rightfully skeptical of such accolades,... Read more
Stories about revenge and forgiveness are not new to Hollywood, though the stories about forgiveness are rarer. Still, even among these movies Liam Neeson's little-known film Five Minutes of Heaven... Read more
Nonfiction - Alfred North Whitehead once noted that all of philosophy is a footnote to Plato, and there is a case to be made that all theology is a footnote... Read more
As with many great books, Dostoevsky's classic, Crime and Punishment, is often cited and rarely read. This, however, just gives modern audiences a chance to rediscover what made it a... Read more
If you're looking for a recent release that also has substance, take a look at Robert Redford's film The Conspirator. The film explores the fate of Mary Surratt, a woman... Read more
Allan Bloom's classic study on American education, The Closing of the American Mind, is as relevant today as it was in 1987, when it was written. The subtitle itself suggests... Read more
Graham Greene (1904-1991) is perhaps best known to American audiences for his role in the film-turn-novel The Third Man (1949), a thrilling international crime film set in post-WWII Vienna as the... Read more
For some, watching "old" movies (some of us call them "classics") can be a drag. The music or acting may seem cheesy, the picture quality is not as good, and... Read more
G.K. Chesterton is perhaps best known to modern audiences as one of the authors who most profoundly influenced C.S. Lewis. In that light, Chesterton is a fascinating person to read,... Read more
With questions and anger swirling over the recent Casey Anthony trial, it seems appropriate to reflect on what justice really is in a societal context. There are countless classic works... Read more
The Iliad, foundational to the Western literary canon and long considered one of the world's great classics, is a work that needs little introduction. Nearly 3,000 years after its first... Read more
Nonfiction - Blaise Pascal is rightly regarded as the father of modern apologetics. A contemporary of René Descartes (mid 17th century), Pascal stood athwart the birth of modern skepticism, holding... Read more
Polls suggest that a growing number of Americans and Britons are pessimistic about the future. The breakdown of the family, declining educational standards and results, ballooning government, environmental concerns, rising... Read more
Get Low (Starring Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, and Sissy Spacek) is based on the true story of a man from Roane County, TN named Felix Bush Breazeale (Duvall), who in... Read more
Far from the light fare of Alice in Wonderland (from which the title is derived), Rabbit Hole is a sobering and wrenching story about how parents respond to the accidental... Read more
Fiction - Aldous Huxley, who died on the same day as C.S. Lewis and President Kennedy, once wrote a letter to author George Orwell, bragging that his novel Brave New... Read more
Danish author Isak Dinesen (Baroness Karen Blixen, 1885-1962) published two stories in the mid-nineteenth century that were eventually turned into movies. Amazingly both movies garnished an Oscar for Best Picture. ... Read more
Film: While the subject and background of this film may well give cause for concern, the story is a refreshingly redemptive one. Lars Lindstrom, a socially awkward man, surprises his... Read more
Fiction - Till We Have Faces is not typical C.S. Lewis fare. Lewis' most famous fiction contains fairly obvious Christian symbols and parallels: Aslan = Christ, Witch = Satan,... Read more
Fiction - This quick read was the most popular book at our student retreat last Summer. Like all of Lewis’ fiction, The Great Divorce is a colorful and moving story. ... Read more
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