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Prince Caspian

A collection of 13 posts

Reader mailstrom, 10/16: Through a Screen Darkly; Prince Caspian; Lakeview Terrace; Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Welcome to Reader Mailstrom, a chronicle of stand-outs from the daily maelstrom of Looking Closer email. * DARKLY PLEASED From Chris: The part where you talked about being on a date and tearing up at the film you were seeing rang close to home. That happened to me at Atonement last

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Browser, 7/3: What Adamson left out; World on "Wanted"; Watch Hitchens try waterboarding (LINK REPAIRED)

What Narnia's Son of Adam (that is, Adamson) left out Christopher Howse at The Telegraph reports on the important stuff in C.S. Lewis's Prince Caspian that Andrew Adamson and his screenwriters left out: I wonder if audiences are looking out for the wrong things in

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The Kindlings Muse Reviews "Prince Caspian," "Indiana Jones," "Mongol," and More

For all of those people who wrote to me asking, "What do you think of Bella? Isn't it great? Don't you love it? Isn't it the best movie of the year?" Well, I've finally delivered a review. It's

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How "Prince Caspian" Botches the Meaning of the Book

Want to know if Andrew Adamson's Prince Caspian is fun and entertaining? Check out the reviews archived at Rotten Tomatoes. But if you're a fan of C.S. Lewis's Prince Caspian, which is something quite different, and if you hope to see Lewis'

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Caspian's PG and David Dark's Next

Did Prince Caspian get the right rating? Cinematical's Eric Snider thinks the "PG" is misleading. I didn't know the rating before I watched it, and I didn't remember, off the top of my head, whether the first Chronicles of Narnia was PG.

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DecentFilms on Prince Caspian: Lewis's Themes and Ideas are "Largely Lost."

When it comes to The Chronicles of Narnia films, well... I want them to be great. I want them to be entertaining, yes. But more than anything, I hope that the filmmakers finds ways to preserve the ideas at the core of the story. In The Lion, the Witch and

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Christianity Today: 2 1/2 stars (out of 4) for "Prince Caspian"

Are you looking forward to the appearance of Bacchus in Prince Caspian? Alas, you won't see that scene. That's just the beginning of the cuts that concern Peter T. Chattaway in his review of the movie at Christianity Today. Wow. Chattaway does find the film quite

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"The Defanging of Aslan"

Steven D. Greydanus interviews the men behind Prince Caspian. And he finds them making some rather dubious claims. "I've produced a lot of movies based on books," he said, speaking at a New York press event with other Narnia filmmakers. Citing titles from The Natural to

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Mick Silva's Advice for Writers; Narnia's Makeover for High King Peter

Silva ponders Mick Silva on the voice of the Christian writer. * High King Peter of Narnia's "small mind" In C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, High King Peter did not have a "small mind." But it seems that American filmmakers are

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Compromising Caspian?

Today at CT Movies, witness Mark Moring challenging Douglas Gresham on Prince Caspian. And Gresham's answers are just fine... that is, if you aren't concerned that the movie be true to the book, and if you thought the film version of The Lion, the Witch and

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Specials: Reepicheep. Indy trailer. Katherine Heigl. Philip Yancey.

Today's specials concern a mouse, an archaeologist, the star of Gray's Anatomy, and one of my favorite Christian writers... REEPICHEEP... you know, that insane killing machine from Narnia... It will be interesting to see if Walden Media is able to bring C.S. Lewis's

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"Prince Caspian" Update

My least favorite part of Andrew Adamson's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe... the unimaginative, excessive battle scene. So imagine how I felt today as I read this news in Variety: "Helmer Andrew Adamson delivered a taped message saying that, unlike the original, Prince Caspian will

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"Prince Caspian" greenlit...

...according to NarniaWeb, anyway. Looks like Prince Caspian got the big phone call today, and rumor has it that you could hear cheers all over Narnia. Aslan was found rolling in his royal catnip garden and, when asked for a comment, he said something about how he hopes to be