Entries Categorized as 'Movies'

Another View of Batman

Date August 13, 2008

Over at internetmonk.com, I just read a post about Batman which takes a very different view of the movie. Check it out for a perspective on why the ending was *not* so great. I find echoes of a greater truth in it (and its popularity in those echoes)–Ray Ortlund and Michael Spencer find something that [...]

Thoughts on the Dark Knight and Substitutionary Atonement

Date August 11, 2008

Last week, I went to see The Dark Knight. This film has been a phenomenon, breaking records all over the place. Everybody agrees that it is very “dark” (the stranglehold of suggestion over our adjectives), and some have protested that it fails as a film because superhero movies are supposedly for kids–ergo, they may not [...]