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Million Dollar Baby

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Million Dollar Baby (2004)

Million Dollar Baby (2004)

[This review was originally published at Christianity Today.] Some people live lives in which their prayers are answered, their dreams fulfilled, their needs met, and their lives richly blessed. Others live lives of frustration, longing to hear God's voice, carrying excruciating burdens and struggling to maintain their belief

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Save "J"

There's a new comedy opening this month, one that's received a lot of praise at film festivals. And I'm very concerned about what is going to happen when it opens. Since I don't want to distract people who will see the movie

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Boxing Day

Warning: Late-afternoon rant ahead. Watching one of those movie-trailer television commercials on Monday (I mean, a TV commercial projected on the big screen, not a movie trailer on television), I finally reached the breaking point. The commercial was for The Apprentice and The Contender. I'm not fond of

Looking Elsewhere

Cruise, "Sin City"; Leary and Loy on Eastwood and "Closer"

So, here are a few pieces I stumbled across today... A mind-boggling update on director Todd Haynes' spectacularly weird concept for a movie about Bob Dylan. I cannot wait to see this. I'm Not There: Suppositions on a Film Concerning Dylan Congratulations, Peter Jackson! King Kong filming

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Many, Many Thanks to Those Who Emailed Me

To those who have emailed me in response to The Seattle Times feature on Looking Closer, I can't thank you enough for the encouragement you've given me. I will answer each and every email that you've sent as I find the time, but it&

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Looking Closer Becomes a Cover Story

The Seattle Times article is up! (... he says, as he crawls under his desk in bewilderment.) On the front page of the Pacific Northwest Magazine section, it'll appear just ahead of the headline: Slug Bait No More! I owe many thanks to the two fellows responsible for this

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I'm in the L.A. Daily News Today

It's always strange to have one or two lines quoted when the interview lasted an hour. But there it is. ... In Glenn Whipp's L.A. Daily News article about Million Dollar Baby and its controversial ending, I'm quoted as defending the movie's

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Clint Eastwood Denies Advocating You-Know-What

I'm not going to spoil the ending to "Million Dollar Baby." But for those of you who know how it ends, and think that the film is advocating such behavior, listen to Clint Eastwood's sharp retort: In his interview with the Los Angeles Times,

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Should Christian critics applaud certain Oscar contenders?

UPDATE: Okay, I admit, I posted a somewhat reactionary entry earlier after reading Barbara Nicolosi's post about the Oscars today at Church of the Masses. I'm a big Barbara Nicolosi fan, even though I don't always agree with her, and today's post

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Clint Eastwood Speaks

Eastwood addresses the controversial conclusion of Million Dollar Baby... ...in this in-depth interview,

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Million Dollar Baby Joins My 2004 Top Ten

This always happens. No sooner do I turn in my Top Ten list of 2004 to meet a deadline than I suddenly discover a film that changes everything. I'm not much of a Clint Eastwood fan. I love Unforgiven, but I thought Mystic River was a vastly overrated