I won’t make a habit of this, I promise.
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I don’t often discover a new angle on a biblical text from a Bible movie, but
Joseph of Nazareth suggests an attractive approach I had never before considered to a deceptively knotty passage in St. Matthew’s Gospel, namely, the passage in Matthew 1 in which Mary has been found to be with child by the Holy Spirit, and Joseph resolves to “divorce her quietly.”
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Peter Chattaway has just
posted some thoughts he’s previously shared elsewhere regarding the shape of Pixar’s body of work to date, and I’ve long thought it’s a brilliant theory.
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Yesterday
I wrote about the possible effects of the box-office success of
Alice in Wonderland on fairy-tale revisionism in family films to come. The flip side is the box-office disappointment of Disney’s
The Princess and the Frog, which hit DVD shelves yesterday.
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