On Movies & Media Constantine (2005): Remembering a Movie I'd Rather Forget My experience with the DC Comics character Constantine was unpleasant, at best. Some of you who were already reading my reviews back in 2005 may remember it...
Roger Ebert Specials: Lizz Wright! Rosenbaum on Last Days Today's specials: I've just discovered an album that's definitely going to be on my year-end favorites list. Lizz Wright's Dreaming Wide Awake is a revelation (at least to me, I didn't hear her previous release, Salt.) Dreaming Wide Awake gives
On Movies & Media Constantine (2005) [This review was originally published at Christianity Today.] • You'd be hard-pressed to find an adventure film that uses as much Christian terminology and symbolism as Constantine. You'd have a tougher time finding one that's makes a bigger mess of it. Director Francis Lawrence'
On Movies & Media Constantine Director Francis Lawrence should pay closer attention Listen to Constantine director Francis Lawrence. Mixing religious themes with a comic book sensibility, were you worried about how it might be received by the hardcore Christian audience in America? I wasn't worried. I thought it was going to be more offensive than it has been. What'
On Movies & Media More Constantine Ramblings up at Paste Magazine Yet another magazine has seen fit to let me ramble on about Constantine. This time, it's Paste. In this piece, I focused on some comments by Gavin Rossdale, the lead singer of Bush and the husband of Gwen Stefani, who plays a demon in the film.
On Movies & Media My Constantine Adventure: Interviewing Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, and others. Angels. Demons. Humans caught in the middle. Heroes trying to resist temptation and defeat Satan’s emissaries. Sounds a lot like an adventure yarn from the mind of Frank Perretti. But Francis Lawrence’s action-horror flick Constantine is a far cry from This Present Darkness. While the hero is an
On Movies & Media "Constantine"'s biggest mistake How many mainstream critics will accept, without a second thought, the fundamental boo-boo of Keanu Reeves' Constantine? Richard Corliss happily volunteers: In this adaptation of a renowned graphic novel, Reeves is an L.A. detective whose job involves casting devils out of Angelenos. (He's the detexorcist!) He
On Movies & Media It Makes The Exorcist Look Like an After-School Special I've seen the new comic-book action film Constantine, which opens on February 18. When it opens, I'll have a full review in Christianity Today Magazine and at the CT Movies site. I'll also share with you what kind of answers I received when I
