Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for the ‘Movies on DVD’ Category

Hell Hath Opened Her Mouth:
A Review of Drag Me to Hell
by Rev. S. Randall Toms, Ph.D.
Warning:  This review contains spoilers.
I am a huge fan of the Universal horror films of the 1930s and 1940s (Dracula, 1931; Frankenstein, 1931; The Wolfman, 1941, etc.) and the Hammer Horror of the late 1950s through the early 1970s (The [...]

Read Full Post »

Another Failed Utopia
 
A Review of M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Village” by S. Randall Toms
 
Warning:  This review contains “spoilers,” so you may want to watch the movie before you read this review.
 When one watches a movie by M. Night Shyamalan, one expects an incredibly surprising twist at the end, such as the conclusion of one of his [...]

Read Full Post »

Spiderman and Self-Denial
A Review by S. Randall Toms, Ph. D. 
In both the original and the sequel, the Spiderman films deal with the consequences of selfishness and the rewards and hardships of self-denial.  In the first Spiderman, Peter Parker is a typical teen-ager who wants to impress the beautiful girl.  When he finds that he has [...]

Read Full Post »