There have been many films released this year that I’ve yet see(*), and there’s many I have seen but still not included here… and you may disagree with me if that’s the case. But here’s the 10 films that grabbed me the most upon first viewing some time during this year, including two very late entries, in reverse order:
Yes, I’ve been known to bemoan a lack of inspiration in the majority of current Christian music (nothing personal but I do find much of it pretty boring, MUSICALLY-speaking), but here I am writing a cheesy song for our Family Zones! This one began as a poem written by our Hellen at Beacon Church, and I developed it by alternating with cheeky shout-outs and adding a chorus and an extra tweak or two. It seems to be a hit with the kids, and others have been asking for it so here you go: a song about justification in a form that kids and adults can all take home! Read the rest of this entry »
Nicolas Cage must get terrible splinters in his tongue. I’m serious. The amount of scenery he’s chewed over the past 30 years, it’s bound to have happened. Some of his movies less so, of course, but with such a vast swathe of them providing jaw-dropping freak-outs from Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew, you’re left wondering if there’s something of Apocalypse Now actually absorbed into his DNA.
The Bible is a collection of 66 books, written by 40 different authors, across 3 continents, in 3 languages, spanning a period of nearly 1500 years. And yet it constitutes a remarkable whole that cannot be explained or ignored as simply as “Man conspired to make it up.” Allow me to explain…
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For the first time since “With Awe Upon Awe” (2007!), I have actually completed a whole song for the church. Lummy. Shows how much church re-planting and movie-watching can divert one’s songwriting…
I’ve been asked a number of times to write full reviews of movies, on the back of my tweets and FB rants on the subject. I’m just glad people weren’t getting fed up with them! As a result, I intend to post occasional “Movie Metaviews” – looking at films from a bigger perspective.
To kick this series off, here’s a review I did for another site some time ago regarding “Surrogates” (2009):
Since this is the opening post for my new site, I thought I’d get the ball rolling with a selection of my favourite opening album tracks. I’m not including those little 1 minute prologues that can appear (Union Black and No World for Tomorrow both feature such a quirk). No, I’m talking about those killer tracks that have been specifically chosen to get the party going, whether they’re the first thing you hear or the first full-length composition. Either way, these are some of my favourite songs ever, and I guess that in itself has something to do with why they were placed where you find them on the album… So, in no particular order:
