Looking Elsewhere 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
Film Reviews 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.
Interviews 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
