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The Passion of The Christ

For those who came in late, Mel Gibson relented and subtitles are found throughout The Passion. Unlike Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon though, Chinese wasn't spoken. Instead, Aramaic and Latin. Presumed languages of the day and while it would have been great to experience an alternate reality borne of the string theories to witness the movie without the subtitles, that's a feat for more travelled Sliders.

Reviewed 25 February 2004 under Popcorning with movies, DVDs and films

Clarity of definition is lost in the bloody wind

Straddling a corpse primed to the teeth with death over the unliving skin, a young man was pulled over by his startled schoolmates on the way to their private Catholic school. Visibly upset, a blind dog sitting by the roadside where the course pelvic workout was taking place asked what manner of God would forbid such a thing. Talking through their slashed throats, the leader of group that had pulled the thrusting boy off the other, rebutted with a silent bow, palms clapsed like an Academy Awards audience member.

Published 4 February 2005 in A Religious Flavour

Guns for these ones but not for those ones

Showing no fear, the Australian government continues on with what appears to be another media based attack on Muslims in Australia. The ad campaign, "Let's Look Out For Australia" —which was recently launched as part of a way to increase government spending on things no one really needs—puts out the message to the citizens of the island continent to remain calm and rational in these wild times of overhead explosions and lethal confetti.

Published 3 January 2003 in A Religious Flavour