SDG here with a few Decent Films notes.
Remember the LifeSiteNews Harry Potter / Pre-16 brouhaha? Jimmy has written about it more than once (as has Eastern Orthodox Harry Potter maven John Granger).
Well, the story’s still out there, and recently I got an email asking me about the Ratzinger letters as well as Fr. Amorth’s anti-HP comments, so I’ve offered my own take in a piece facetiously called “Harry Potter vs. the Pope?” (a play on the title of my eight-year-old essay “Harry Potter vs. Gandalf“).
The new essay is a spin-off of my Decent Films Mail column, for which I just posted two new batches, DF Mail #14 and DF Mail #15. In these batches: Watchmen and caveats of an (apparent) atheist-anarchist who objects to associating either label with nihilism; lots and lots on Up and Harry Potter; The Wizard of Oz and Theosophism; and more. If you haven’t read my DF Mail column, you might enjoy perusing the last few installments as well.
Also, of course, my review of the latest Harry Potter film has been up for awhile now.
Other new reviews posted since my last Decent Films update include G-Force, Public Enemies and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
P.S. Sadly, G-Force has nothing to do with the much more awesome “Battle of the Planets.” In fact, the more I think about it, the more I suspect that the whole inspiration for G-Force (other than a corporate mandate to sell talking plush toys to children) began with a single family-film-ified pop-culture reference joke (“Yippie kay yay, coffee-maker”), and then the whole plot was constructed around that single line. What else could possibly be the explanation for a plot about robotic household appliances planning to take over the world (or whatever)?
Hay, SDG… any thoughts on the passing of John Hughes?