Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Pop Culture
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Dropped by Suspension of Disbelief today after many months away and some how ended up at the following interview Time did recently with Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon. Gaiman (who’s a Brit) had this interesting thing to say about writing scripts in the US aimed at family viewing, But then, I get fascinated because, in…
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With Serenity officially out now in the wider world the reviews are out too. See: Wired News: Serenity’s a Smarter Space Opera Serenity – Film Reviews – Film – Entertainment – theage.com.au BBC – Movies – review – Serenity Serenity (2005) – Hollywood Jesus Telegraph | Arts | From Buffy to blockbuster of the year…
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Went to the cinema, saw the film, loved it. For the uninitiated – watch all the Firefly episodes in the order on the DVD set, read the comics, go to Serenity. (Repeat) So much for it being a relatively unknown film. It sold out the Megascreen at the Village on Queen (400+ seats) and we…
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Off to see the pre-release screening of Serenity tonight in town. After a day of cold, wet rain, hail and strong winds (& snow in Christchurch) it’s a nice way to end the day – especially as I’m going with a couple of other enthusiasts. Managed to get the first two of the comics that…
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Had a good weekend when we had two barbecues (one here and one at a friends). On Saturday we hosted the end of season gathering for Mark’s soccer team. 37 people (13 adults + 24 children) came spent the afternoon here – we had sausages on the barbecue plus other good food and drink. Very…
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It’s Friday, which is normally my evening of space opera – Andromeda followed by Star Trek : Enterprise. But Andromeda finished last week leaving the total amount of space opera across all channels as Doctor Who and Enterprise. TVNZ seems to have dropped the ball on Stargate (Stargate on TVNZ) and I guess in NZ…
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Via Conrad Gempf’s blog I see that New Testament scholar Ben Witherington III has a blog. Not only that but but he’s blogging about the Fantastic 4! And Conrad Gempf posts a comment there about the one, true Green Lantern – Hal Jordan (though Alan Scott is also a favourite). I enjoyed Witherington’s commentary “Conflict…
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Thwarted in my efforts to get to see “Batman Begins” this week. Instead I read several articles by David Zimmerman (Strangely Dim) on “Batman Begins” and the “Fantastic Four”. This week I hope to make it in to the cinema, though with the school holidays on my normal 10am morning slot where there’s only a…
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Got a whole bunch (well, at least 2) ideas running around inside my head about the origin stories that occur in comic books, their significance for the development and understanding of characters and their possible function within the community of faith. While thinking about these I came across two interesting – and opposing – blog…
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Saw this yesterday which made me smile: UserFriendly April 20, 2005. (I guess Star Wars comics/cartoons are back on the agenda for a while.) Reminded me of this article from last year in the NZ Listener – Beer and fear by ear by Olivia Kember | New Zealand Listener. Loved the opening paragraph, It must…