The Purge Review

http://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/purge-poster.jpgThis film certainly had my heart going on quite a few occasions. Like all films, it had it's positives and it's negatives which  I will discuss within this review. 'The Purge' pulled out all the stops to create a jumpy and truly scary film, by the makers of 'Sinister' and 'Paranormal Activity'.The narrative is quite clever yet basic. In the year 2022, citizens of America are given the rights to 'Purge'. This means that for 12 hours on one night of the year, all crime of any form is legalized - The state's way of keeping crime below 1% throughout the rest of the year.The concept is interesting but as the narrative plays out, I found that it was too easy to guess what was to come. I believe this story could have been adapted somewhat better instead of being enclosed to one environment as it didn't really give the film the momentum boost it needed. I felt the character choices were very good and mysterious at times as at one point I thought that the young boy was going to be the ruthless perpetrator. Though the homeless man was predictable from the get go, which spoiled it slightly. The fact that he was out of shot for most of the film, made the ending more exciting! Talking of the ending sequence, it was rushed. 85 or so minutes were spent wondering around a dark house, waiting for someone to pop up and get killed - nothing really changed. They could have spiced up the killings or set some traps in the house to make it slightly more exciting! Back to the ending, it finished too quick for me, one minute people are dying and the next it is 7 o'clock the next morning (when 'Purging' ends) and the film has ended. All in all, this film had a really great narrative but I personally don't think it achieved the greatness that could have been achieved with such a well thought out concept. Saying that, I enjoyed it as it kept me on the edge of my chair every time a corner was turned. One thing I do think is that like 'Paranormal Activity', there will be more films to follow the path of 'Purging', let's just hope it doesn't loose the spark like PA did after several films.I would recommend people go and see this film but expect that 'The Purge' doesn't meet it's full potential. To keep you up to date, please like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter
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Review of "The Soul of Wit: Chesterton on Shakespeare"

Ken Colston on Dale Ahlquist's book featuring a collection of essays on William Shakespeare by G. K. ChestertonThe Soul of Wit: G. K. Chesterton on William Shakespeare - Edited and with an Introduction by Dale Ahlquist,Reviewed byKen Colston Republished here by permission of Homiletic and Pastoral Review.THE SOUL OF WIT: G.K. CHESTERTON ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Edited and Intro by Dale Alquist. (Dover Books on Literature & Drama: December 19, 2012), 336 pages, $10.95 paperback.Dale Alquist has done Catholic readers a double service in his recent collection of G.K. Chesterton’s thoughts on Shakespeare, The Soul of Wit. Alquist has brought to publication a work that the English language’s greatest Catholic convert wanted to finish before he died. He has included in this book a healthy portion of arguments concerning the fact that this great English writer was Catholic.Alquist, who has done perhaps more than any person to revive interest in Chesterton. He builds upon an earlier, posthumous collection from the 1970’s, edited by Dorothy Collins, Chesterton’s secretary and literary executrix.  Although more discussion and notes concerning the provenance of these bits and pieces of Chesterton’s journalistic remarks would have been useful, Alquist’s new edition does include generally helpful titles, contextual groupings, and identifications of source and date. This takes the reader roughly from Shakespeare’s situation in world literature, to Chesterton’s particular judgment of the Bard in English history. It becomes clear that Chesterton was an original and insightful reader, living and breathing England’s national poet, and letting his own thinking be imbued by Shakespeare’s influence.  Chesterton claims that Shakespeare, like most English writers, is in fact a classical Latin author, in the tradition of Vergil, Ovid, Boccaccio, and Chaucer. He is not in the school of Beowulf, as held by the nineteenth-century German folk historians; gloomier than Dante; less democratic than Chaucer; but formed in Greek and Latin without knowing either intimately.What follows are many more counter-intuitive, strange, but uncannily perceptive, insights about individual plays, and characters.  Falstaff is beloved “by all Christian people” despite being a “coward, thief, an old man encouraging the young in vice” because he has not “one drop of pride,” and “jeers at himself for being what he is.”  The Macbeths are like a suburban London couple arguing about postage stamps, only they are arguing about murder. Lady Macbeth represents “industriousness,” and Lord Macbeth “laziness.” In killing themselves, they may have retained “permanent possibilities of humility and gratitude, which ultimately place the soul in heaven.”  Bottom, the weaver, transformed into the ass is nevertheless “greater and more mysterious than Hamlet,” with the largeness of Hercules, Don Quixote, Achilles, and Uncle Toby, who were “next door to a fool.”  Like the Don, and Uncle Toby, he has a gigantic fool’s laudable taste for rhetoric and belles-lettres. Even in his malapropisms—like “odious” for “odors”—the extra “i” is an “inspiration of metricism.”  Bottom’s “rich simplicity,” “rich subconsciousness,” and “silliness on a grand scale” are recognized by the rustic mechanicals as a mark of leadership, for “when he blows his own trumpet, it is like the trumpet of the Resurrection.”  Where would Chesterton be without paradox that upsets conventional thinking?One genius of Chesterton is in getting the reader to believe the most outrageous claims, that women should not vote, that fairies exist as surely as bacteria, that common sense is more certain than mathematical proofs, and that the Resurrection happened.  Great minds are completely themselves in writing about others. The reader of this book on Shakespeare understands quickly that Chesterton folds the dramatic giant into his own gigantesque worldview. Alquist quotes Chesterton:… that Shakespeare was a Catholic is a thing that every Catholic feels by every sort of convergent common sense to be true.  It is supported by the few external and political facts we know; it is utterly unmistakable in the general spirit and atmosphere; and in nothing more than in the skepticism, which appears in some aspects to be paganism.That strategy is vintage Chesterton, turning the skepticism of Hamlet and Macbeth—usually used as evidence of Shakespeare’s own religious doubts—into evidence of religious conviction. But, he is also not arguing systematically for the truth of a claim, but organically, digressively, conversationally.  Chesterton smells the Catholic Shakespeare, he asserts, in the way he can smell that the sea is not an onion. Religion, unlike a philosophy, is recognized at once, like intuiting that a man is a Hindu, but not knowing that he is philosophically a Hegelian.  How can you refute an argument like that?   Chesterton’s main reasoning, concerning the Catholicism of Shakespeare, tends to be more impressionistic than logical. Shakespeare is was not a Puritan, for instance, as he ridiculed Puritans in his plays, but not friars, or the existence of purgatory.  The Puritan, Milton, was proud, frigid, complete, scholarly, certain. Shakespeare resembled his characters, Bottom and Falstaff, by being incomplete, lazy, humble, truant, skeptical, ribald, never spelling his name the same way twice, and dying of overdrinking at a wedding feast with a writing buddy.  Shakespeare, in short, represents the kind of Englishman that Chesterton celebrated and emulated.  “I, for one,” he says, “am not a Miltonian.”  Milton’s religion was “a religion that Milton made,” whereas Shakespeare’s religion “made him.”  Chesterton does not practice the critical schizophrenia of “new critical” and “postmodern” hermeneutics: there is no difference between Shakespeare, the man, and Shakespeare, the writer.Chesterton does not acknowledge the obvious challenge to the Catholicism of Shakespeare: that because someone in Elizabethan and Jacobean England was not a Puritan, does not mean that he was not a Protestant.  Richard Hooker’s via mediamay have preserved enough of medieval Christianity to satisfy a traditionalist-leaning Catholic; Elizabeth certainly hoped it did.  (I don’t think it could have satisfied anyone with a deep longing for the sacraments who was lost to Cranmer’s Reformation.)  But that objection is like quibbling over the kind of ink that Fermat used: the joy of reading Chesterton, even in his occasional prose, is not found in following lines of argument, but in beholding paradoxical, poetic dichotomies.  “All Englishmen are either Miltonians or Shakespeareans,” he writes, either tightly buttoned or wearing “morning dress to dinner.”There are simply no critics left, alas, who can soar so high above the details, while still hitting the nail on the head.-Ken Colston
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Mother's Day in review

Yesterday was a good day. I sure love being a mother to these kids. They were sweet and thoughtful all day long. I don't think they've ever been so tidy, either. My favorite moment of the day came during Sacrament Meeting, when the primary kids sang a special Mother's Day song. Elliot went up to the stand, too, even though he's not in primary yet. He was front and center and he smiled and waved enthusiastically to me the whole time. It was pretty great. Mike was generous in his help and I felt very loved and appreciated.I used to think that what I wanted for Mother's Day was a day off, but I realized that never made me happy. So yesterday, I went about my day as usual, and I was overcome by the joy I felt in caring for my family. It was a happy day, and I am so grateful for my role as a mother.
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Week in Review with Kenny and Nick: May 5th, 2013

Everyone's favorite radio hosts are back with the newest edition of the Week in Review on the Bob Sullivan Show (@BobSullivanShow).  Kenny (@teapester725) and Nick (@ziggy26x) discuss a wide range of topics including the Tim Tebow experiment ending with the Jets and some future prospects of the quarterback position and team roster in general.  Afterwards they dabble in baseball discussing their surprises and disappointments of the first month of the season.  Finally they breakdown a disappointing Game 1 for the Knicks and the rest of the second round match-ups while giving their opinions on the first round and playoffs all together.  Don't forget the that Nick will give his speech for the award be won earlier in the week. Want to find out what that award was and what Kenny and Nick think of the world of sports this week? Tune in to the link below and listening in to the Best Looking Radio Show.http://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-bob-sullivan-show/2013/05/06/week-in-review-with-kenny-and-nick
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