http://brandoncozart.com Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:56:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When I first saw Doubt in the theater, I left not really knowing what to think. You could say I left with doubts about Doubt (cheap joke, I know). The film ends rather abruptly and it caught me off-guard. This led me to not really care for ... http://brandoncozart.com/archives/2009/04/10/doubt-a-film-review/ Ever since Terry Gilliam abandoned the project in the early nineties, Watchmen has widely been regarded as “unfilmable.” The complexity of the story and its characters, a rabid, cult following, its place among TIME’s All-time 100 Best Novels---these are just a few of the factors heaping pressure on ... http://brandoncozart.com/archives/2009/03/06/watchmen-a-film-review/ this year's Oscars was one of the better awards shows i've seen in a while. Hugh Jackman has to be one of the most likable actors in the business and i thought he did a really great job hosting. the two highlights for me were Ben Stiller's ripping ... http://brandoncozart.com/archives/2009/02/23/2009-oscar-wrap-up/ so the Oscars begin in a little over an hour. this is one of the few years where i've seen a majority of the nominated films (hopefully this will be the beginning of a new trend), so i thought i would do a post of Oscar predictions for the ... http://brandoncozart.com/archives/2009/02/22/2009-oscar-predictions/ outside of contemporary theology and history, i don't tend to read contemporary best sellers, especially those of the fiction variety. to prove this point, i looked up the New York Times best sellers list to see how many books i had even heard of before. much to my ... http://brandoncozart.com/archives/2008/09/10/the-road-by-cormac-mccarthy-a-book-review/ since it's release, i've seen The Dark Knight twice. i loved the movie and believe it will be the best movie i see all year. it's not a perfect movie by any means, but everything it does it does extremely well and is a very fine piece of ... http://brandoncozart.com/archives/2008/08/13/the-gospel-according-to-the-dark-knight/ so this blog has been quiet for a while. i got terribly bogged down in my last semester of seminary as i was trying to graduate. other factors contributed to this, but since graduation is over i hope to have a lot more time to devote to blogging. ... http://brandoncozart.com/archives/2008/05/25/prince-caspian-a-film-review/ so as i've said in previous posts, i'm reading through Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series. i've just completed the second book, A Subtle Knife. if you've read my post on The Golden Compass, you will remember that i really enjoyed that book. i thought it was ... http://brandoncozart.com/archives/2008/01/14/the-subtle-knife-by-philip-pullman-a-book-review/ head on over to the blog for the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University where you might see a familiar name. as the title of this post suggests, it's a grand honor to have been given the privilege of being able to contribute to that blog, and i greatly ... http://brandoncozart.com/archives/2008/01/05/a-grand-honor/ on this day in 1892, the greatest author of 20th century was born. in commemoration of this event, The Tolkien Society sponsors a worldwide toast for folks to show their appreciation to the good professor, his work, and the legacy he left behind. a fantastic tradition and one ... http://brandoncozart.com/archives/2008/01/03/a-toast-to-the-professor/