- More mentions of Dogma in Roger Ebert’s Answer Man column this week. This time, a question from a Reverend regarding the film that’s quite complimentary:
Q. I just saw “Dogma.” If it is blasphemous, it is Catholic blasphemy and God is not angry. Kevin Smith makes (perhaps unintentionally) four important points about God: God is incomprehensible, absent, strange and love. Very sound theology. Also, Catholic theology does work–or at least do the stories on which it is based.
The Rev. Andrew Greeley, Chicago
A. Not all films with Catholic themes are so knowledgable. I just saw “End of Days,” in which Arnold Schwarzenegger does combat with Satan. The theology is not sound, but the plot is certainly incomprehensible, absent and strange.
- Ah,those wacky folks at The Onion are at it again. Dogma makes another of their famous parodies, this time in a small paragraph from “The Outside Scoop”:
“Just in time for the holidays, director Kevin Williamson hasreleased a potty-mouthed movie called Dogma that purportedly takes onthe Catholic church. The movie stars couple Ben Kingsley and Matt Damonas a pair of angels–but they’re no angels! Instead, they carry guns andcurse. I’m not a Catholic (I was raised a decent Lutheran), but I don’tthink it’s appropriate to mock a religion like that. Shame on Williamsonfor his bad taste and questionable judgment!”
- A small piece on “Boiler Room”, where Affleck makes a cameo appearance as the guy who lures the lead (Giovanni Ribisi)into the brokerage firm, has appeared at the NLCPub site. We’ve also got a shot of the man in action for ya, the first we’ve seen of Affleck in the flick.
That about does it for today, though at this rate we’re sure there’s gonna be more for tomorrow! We’ll catch ya then.
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