Slumdog Millionaire, directed by Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan, is currently the odds on favorite for winning the Best Picture award at the Oscars. However, given the movie is still under the radar for most casual movie goers despite substantial critical acclaim, the goal of this review is to urge those have not heard of this movie to see it. (disclaimer)The movie tells an incredible story about a child's journey to adulthood in a rapidly developing India. The movie is incredibly funny at times, startling at others, and ultimately incredibly uplifting.
Based on Rottentomatoes.com, 94% of reviewers from around the country give it a positive review. Praise from movie critiques obviously need to be taken lightly however given their tendency to praise well-crafted but ultimately boring films. In this case, I can assure you Slumdog Millionaire will appeal to movie goers with even the shortest attention spans.
In summary, this film is a masterpiece with universal appeal.
"Blanchard Road addresses artistic, economic, environmental, historical, legal, philosophical, and political issues through a Christian perspective."
ReplyDeleteWow guys, isn't your scope a little narrow? ;)
On a side note, why the name Blanchard Road?
Ya, we probably shouldn't have said, "life, the universe and everything else" but we tend to be specialists like PhD candidates:)
ReplyDeleteWe picked Blanchard road because of the connection to Wheaton and because there is no Blanchard Road in Wheaton. Thus, we are now, metaphysically a new road connected to Wheaton with that name. (Actually, I don't remember how we came up with that)
are you sure about that? I swear that I've driven on Blanchard road. Isn't there a church called Blanchard Road Alliance church??
ReplyDeleteAccording to google maps there isn't
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but if there, we'll have to develop a new story on the name......check out this funny Monday picture: http://jpulliam21.blogspot.com/