AVATAR: James Cameron’s Insurgency
AVATAR: James Cameron...
AVATAR: James Cameron’s Insurgency Posted by: John Marks on 12/04/2009 @ 9:49 am  (http://john.purplestateofmind.com/?p=836) Is James Cameron’s new movie Avatar sympathetic to the Taliban? If it is, will anyone over here care? Am I insane? Here’s why I ask. Once, long ago,...
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NEW MOON: What I Saw At The Vampire Revolution (Spoilers)
NEW MOON: What I Saw At...
NEW MOON: What I Saw At The Vampire Revolution (Spoilers) Posted by: John Marks on 11/22/2009 @ 10:19 am I knew virtually nothing about the plot, except that the story involved vampires, werewolves, abs and abstinence, but yesterday afternoon, after reading of the astonishing...
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2012: WE HEART DOOM by John Marks
2012: WE HEART DOOM by ...
2012: WE HEART DOOM Posted by: John Marks on 11/17/2009 @ 9:48 am Disaster movies are all about missing the bullet. We never identify with the body falling out of the building. We always inhabit the eyes of the living, who watch as the body plummets. In this, we obey the camera....
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BOOKLIST: TOP 10 RELIGION VIDEOS OF 2009
BOOKLIST: TOP 10 RELIGI...
BOOKLIST: TOP 10 RELIGION VIDEOS OF 2009 Purple State Of Mind Posted by: John Marks on 11/11/2009 @ 1:50 pm Here are the top ten religion videos of 2009, according to Booklist, the magazine of the American Library Association. Purple State Of Mind is third from the bottom. Top...
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PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: A FAN GETS IRRITATED, AND I WONDER WHY
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: A ...
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: A FAN GETS IRRITATED, AND I WONDER WHY Okay. For those who don’t know, the most interesting phenomenon in movies right now is the success of Paranormal Activity, a home-made ghost story filmed for an alleged $15,000 and bought by a studio for $300,000. It now...
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BOOKLIST: PURPLE STATE OF MIND NAMED ONE OF THE TOP TEN RELIGION DVD’S OF THE LAST YEAR
BOOKLIST: PURPLE STATE ...
BOOKLIST: PURPLE STATE OF MIND NAMED ONE OF THE TOP TEN RELIGION DVD’S OF THE LAST YEAR by John Marks (from John’s blog on the Purple State of Mind website) We just got word. In its November issue, Booklist, the magazine of the American Library Association, names Purple State...
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WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE: THE YEAR’S MOST MYSTERIOUS MOVIE
WHERE THE WILD THINGS A...
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE: THE YEAR’S MOST MYSTERIOUS MOVIE by John Marks (from John’s blog on the Purple State of Mind website) How to articulate what I felt when I walked out of the theater after seeing Spike Jonze’ Where The Wild Things Are? Here are a few of the thoughts...
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Marks and Mark Joseph – Pretty Darn “Windy”
Marks and Mark Joseph &...
Marks and Mark Joseph – Pretty Darn “Windy” (entry from John Marks’ blog on www.purplestateofmind.com.) When it comes to the mix of faith and pop in popular culture, we tend to ignore the faith and embrace the pop. Anyone who loved the music of Johnny Cash...
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James Hynes Reviews District 9 and Moon
James Hynes Reviews Dis...
James Hynes Reviews District 9 and Moon (entry from John Marks’ blog on www.purplestateofmind.com) James Hynes By James Hynes This weekend I saw two ambitious indie sci-fi movies, Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 and Duncan Jones’s Moon. Leaving aside their relative levels of...
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WOODY ALLEN’S EVANGELICAL MOVIE
WOODY ALLEN’S EVANGEL...
WOODY ALLEN’S EVANGELICAL MOVIE (from John Marks’ Blog on the Purple State of Mind website.) I wasn’t sure I wanted to see Woody Allen’s Whatever Works. The idea of Larry David playing a role that was written for Zero Mostel more than thirty years ago, working from a...
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