Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Tuesday, February 15, 2011

A suprisingly objective review,


for a Christian website, of the remake of a film that is of the 'rough, tough, shoot-'em-up, car chase, kill people' genre.

Male Bonding Goes to the Extreme in The Mechanic

Here's another review, this one from an internet film reviewer whose opinions I have a lot of respect for (I don't always agree with him, but he's a very good film reviewer...) Mechanic, The

On a different point, have you noticed the huge number of film remakes that are coming out of Hollywood these days? I've often felt that Hollywood has gotten to the end of their imagination, and I think this is confirming it. The best films, as always, are the indie productions that are more available now than in the past. I think we're getting out to see more of them because we can find out about them much more easily due to the internet. Word gets around. It's free advertising for films that have limited budgets in the first place...


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