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My Week in Reviews: November 16, 2019

Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi, 2019)

Five things...

1. Jojo Rabbit is as hilarious as it is heartfelt... which is to say, extremely.

2. Both Roman Griffin Davis and Thomasin McKenzie turn in incredible performances, here. McKenzie was already on my radar thanks to her stellar performance in last year’s Leave No Trace, but Davis is probably the best performance from a newcomer I’ve seen all year.

3. There’s absolutely no reason both Taika Waititi and Sam Rockwell shouldn’t be in major contention for Best Supporting Actor come Oscar time. Waititi, of course, being the more obvious of the two, what with his take on Hitler being the most absurd, unstable, ludicrous and unsettling I’ve seen probably ever. He perfectly captures the essence of that silly little monster, without ever abandoning the weight of what he’d done. Meanwhile, Rockwell creates an impossibly likable asshole as - apparently - only he really can.

4. Scarlett Johansson is really the only weak link in terms of the cast, and even then, it’s more so because of how little screen-time she actually gets.

5. The first two acts here are magnificent. Hilarious and heartbreaking and silly and disarming and so incredibly heartbreaking. Sadly, it loses its steam and focus by the time the third act comes around, and disappoints with an unfocused finale that failed to hit home in the way the rest of the film did.

- 7.5/10

Ford v Ferrari (James Mangold, 2019)

At its core, Ford v Ferrari isn't about the war between two automotive giants, it's about destiny and the drive toward the perfect lap. As Ken Miles and Carroll Shelby, Christian Bale and Matt Damon (respectively) are at their best since The Fighter & True Grit (respectively). Whether they're butting heads or championing one another, the two create a friendship, here, that adds a rich human story to an epic, mechanical tale. Mangold's direction is immersive, focusing on these characters rather than merely their goals. As a result, the racing sequences are electric not only because of how they're shot, but because of the way they bring us deeper into the raging fire that is Bale's Ken Miles. The supporting cast is top notch, especially Tracy Letts, who brings Henry Ford II to life as a man who's equal parts egotistical, oblivious and vindictive. - 8.5/10

Gemini Man (Ang Lee, 2019)

Stupid. But, the action sequences are mostly a blast, and the rendering on young Will Smith is incredible until that awful final scene. - 5/10

Angel Has Fallen (Ric Roman Waugh, 2019)

Stupid. It feels like it was written in ten minutes by compiling all of the laziest action movie cliches. Some of the action is kinda fun, but mostly it’s just lazily choreographed and poorly edited. I really, really enjoyed watching Nick Nolte blow a bunch of shit up, though... so at least there was that. - 2.5/10

Enjoy!

-Timothy Patrick Boyer.

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Over the Moon

One of the most stunning and conceptually exciting moments of Over the Moon lands early. As Fei Fei (Cathy Ang)’s parents retell the Chinese legend of Chung’e (Phillipa Soo), a goddess who resides on the moon, forever separated from her love Houyi, the picture seamlessly transitions from impressively rendered CG animation to sketchy hand-drawn frames. Director Glen Keane overlaps the family’s affection for traditional tales with an appreciation of traditional animation.

Beyond the retelling of the legend, some 3D scenes have playful 2D doodles dancing around in the background during a montage of the main character working on her rocket. A long-time character animator for Disney, having worked on almost all of the studio’s animated output since Pete’s Dragon in 1977, Keane displays equal reverence for tactile, hand-drawn work as well as the potential of the more untethered computer animation.

Over the Moon engages with tradition on multiple levels, made in the mould of the kind of Disney films that Keane used to work on. One such way: despite what Netflix’s trailers suggest, this is actually a musical, with mostly serviceable songs married to a moving story about a child dealing with the loss of a loved one. The tale of Chang’e is inherently connected to Fei-Fei’s memory of her mother, her belief in the legend inherently tied to her refusal to accept her father’s (John Cho) new relationship with Mrs Zhong (Sandra Oh), of selfishness born from grief.

Many plot points will be instantly familiar to older viewers: a child’s refusal to move on; a parent’s new love; the encroachment of new step siblings. You can calculate the trajectory of each arc the moment it begins. To be fair, one can easily imagine children being swept up in the film’s bold colours. Adults should find a lot to love in the visuals as well, as the story shifts from the lush greens of Fei Fei’s hometown to the cold, expansive negative spaces of the moon, to the luminous, abstract shapes of Lumeria, the hidden moon kingdom ruled over by Chang’e herself.

Throughout Over the Moon, Keane applies the sensibilities of 2D animation to 3D, often flattening images to a single plane and, once Fei Fei arrives on the moon, similarly flattening the brighter tones of Lumeria. So while the story hardly reinvents the coming-of-age wheel, certain stylistic touches make it feel less disposable.

Later, Chang’e’s (re)introduction as an immortal diva pop idol – bursting onto the scene in Alexandra McQueen-esque get-up – marks a shift not just in the film’s art style but in its music as well, moving from a (fairly literal) classical style of musical number to (still fairly literal) dance pop and even hip-hop. While this means that the film is always visually engaging, the rest would have benefitted from more focus.

The main cast could really have done with some more time together, instead of being interrupted by various zany supporting characters (including a mostly annoying mascot character voiced by Ken Jeong). Despite this and the oddly paced, paint-by-numbers narrative, the visuals truly pop, and the film is at once unpredictable and dazzling in its combination of different techniques and styles.

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Over the Moon Release Date and Trailers Tease Netflix’s Optimistic Animated Feature

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Over the Moon, an animated feature heads to Netflix in October, showcasing an aesthetically impressive, awe-inspiring tale of wonder and randomly-erupting musical sequences that’s out to prove that Disney+ isn’t the only place on which its genre flourishes.

The film focuses on the exploits of a young Asian-American girl, who—having been entranced by a myth about a goddess who accidentally floated away from her true love to be exiled on the moon—embarks on a cosmic endeavor of building a rocket for a lunar visit of her own. Despite the problematic practicalities of its plot mechanics, Over the Moon appears destined to become a family-aimed crowd-pleaser, and also serves as valuable representation for a demographic that’s infrequently set in a protagonist capacity in Western features.

On that note, do check out the trailers for Over the Moon just below!

Over the Moon Trailers

The final trailer for Over the Moon picks up where the first trailer left off, revealing a rather stylistic, Disney-esque musical turn upon Fei Fei’s lunar arrival.

You can also check out the first trailer, which arrived back in June.

Over the Moon Details

The representation aspect of Over the Moon is also prominently reflected in its voice cast, which consists of an impressive lineup of Asian-American actors such as Cathy Ang, Phillipa Soo, Robert G. Chiu, Ken Jeong, John Cho, Ruthie Ann Miles, Margaret Cho, Kimiko Glenn, Artt Butler and Sandra Oh. Based on the family dynamic on display in the trailer, the film seems to showcase representation that’s eloquently subtle (not ham-handed and self-congratulatory), while widely-identifiable, perhaps akin to Disney’s 2014 smash hit, Big Hero 6, which poignantly focused on the ordeal of boy genius protagonist Hiro Hamada and his diverse lineup of friends.    

Interestingly, another notable narrative about Over the Moon is the identity of its director, Glen Keane, who fields a long-in-the-making feature directorial debut here. Indeed, despite this being his first time in the big chair, Keane brings nearly 50 years’ worth of experience as an animator from a what’s-what list of iconic features such as Disney offerings Tarzan, Pocahontas, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Oliver & Company, The Black Cauldron, The Fox and the Hound, The Rescuers, Pete’s Dragon and—in an impressive topical divergence—even 1973-1974’s Star Trek: The Animated Series. The animation legend worked here off a screenplay finalized by Jennifer Yee McDevitt (Pittsburgh Passion), who completed the work of originally-set scribe Audrey Wells (The Hate U Give), who passed away back in October 2018.

Over the Moon, a production of Netflix, Janet Yang Productions and Pearl Studio, will ultimately join an existing lineup of original animated features (in addition to the licensed ones,) on Netflix consisting of films such as Klaus, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus, I Lost My Body, Flavors of Youth, Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters,  Pachamama, Next Gen and White Fang. Moreover, said lineup will be joined by the exclusive acquisition of long-awaited sequel Chicken Run 2, which was just announced on the 20th anniversary of the original’s release. Sure, it may not be the embarrassment of animated IP riches of Disney+, but it’s nothing to scoff at for any discerning parent or adult animation enthusiast.

Over the Moon Release Date

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Over the Moon lands on Netflix (and select theaters) on Friday, October 23.

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Biblical Studies Carnival for February 2020

Welcome to Février Gras.

This is The Biblical Studies Carnival 3x7x23

completing 168 monthly editions since the inaugural BS carnival 180 months ago, music, poetry, art in celebration of those studying the ancient texts.

Official colours of Mardi Gras

The Krewe of TNK The head of the first parade is Deane Galbraith presenting Marc Zvi Brettler's lecture on Jewish Biblical Scholarship. Torah

Day 1 - The earth was a right old mess2

All sorts of free goodies distributed from this krewe. Laurent Sangpo gives us a 5 minute reception history on Le Déluge de Michel-Ange."...il suit ainsi l’exégèse ancienne, qui voyait dans la catastrophe la représentation symbolique de notre monde."

Mark Leuchter and Zev Farber describe the relationship of the siblings, Moses, Miriam, and Aaron, "partners of similar standing in redeeming the people". Carol Meyers asks Who wrote the song? Athalya Brenner-Idan has updated an essay from 2016, Are female readers included in the Decalogue?

Sandra Jacobs writes on Exodus 21:22-25: Accidental Injuries in a Public Brawl, 3 interpretations of the degree and type of compensation required. A d'varling from the Velveteen Rabbi, "if you keep making that face, you'll get stuck that way." Prophets

... wasn't it something to behold that mess

Pete Enns brings up the violence against the Canaanites. Aaron Koller writes on Composing the Song of Deborah, "here we have two empirical models with clear parallels to the biblical Song of Deborah, and both are well attested and fairly well understood."

Judges 5:2 (The whole song is here.)

Saul was Tall by Brian Doak, Bodies speak ... Solomon has no body of significance. ... Hezekiah possesses no beauty... Josiah is a complete ghost. Brant Pitre introduces the lessons for the Presentation in the Temple with particular emphasis on Malachi and the Twelve. Writings

... A symphony of voices

A hole in the parchment, through which the word 'gratiam' ('grace') is visible

Kate Thomas presents a medieval manuscript in praise of the Psalms. De laude psalmorum. "This short Latin treatise explains why saying the Psalms was considered spiritually beneficial, and which Psalms were good for which purposes. It opens a window onto how medieval people understood one of the most important liturgical and devotional books of the Middle Ages, the Psalter."

Brent Niedergall posts on a textual issue in Ruth. "What if an English Bible translation translated a Hebrew word meaning 'he' as 'she'?"

Esther: Girls of marriageable age in the ancient world were much younger than brides today in the western world.

Marg Mowczko begins a series on Esther, and continues with a second post, For such a time as this. The girls "weren’t volunteering for a wonderful opportunity. They weren’t competing for a marvellous prize. Most may well have been taken against their will and against the hopes of their families who might never see their girls again."

Daniel became a writer

Phillip Long continues the unrolling of Daniel. "Belshazzar can look no worse, his mother publicly rebuking his cowardice! (Did she stop to comb his hair and tell him to tuck his shirt in as well?)" He must be nearly right through to the end - if that's not the end, it's close.

Daniel 5:25 - setting the words, the accents in their simplest form

Announced this month via the Times of Israel: A 616-page codex that was written in 1028.

Psalm 150 Karaite

An article with some images is available here from The Jewish Quarterly Review. "NEARLY A THOUSAND YEARS have passed since Zechariah Ben 'Anan finished the demanding work of copying Ketuvim (Writings), the third part of the Hebrew Bible, in a manuscript found by sheer happenstance on a dusty shelf in the Karaite synagogue of Cairo in late July 2017" The tail of the Krewe of TNK

Your host posted a tabular comparison of two strategies for explaining the accents of the TNK and a brief on reading with the music stimulated by the medieval book on the accents translated by Geoffrey Khan, The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew. Benjamin Kantor officially launches the Tiberian Hebrew page here. Jonathan Orr-Stav responds to a question on Tiberian pronunciation. Jim Davila highlights an article on dating the Hebrew Bible through linguistics. And, via William Ross, the LXX has its international day. A quote from the obit for S. R. Driver (for links see the final parade below):

The Old Testament must remain an ever-fresh fountainhead of living truth, able to invigorate and restore, to purify and refine, to ennoble and enrich, the moral and spiritual being of man.

The Krewe of the NT

Travis Proctor heads the second parade with an exploration of the demonic body, "residual souls of antediluvian giants".

Gospels and Acts

... like the first glimmer of rising

If it quacks...

A few goodies distributed to the people from this krewe may require a payment. But there's enough even if you can't get into the post-parade-party. Bart Ehrman reviews a Newly Discovered gospel. "rarely does anyone actually discuss the actual *evidence*". His post reaches back into the archives. Ekaterini G. Tsalampouni points us to an article on the ending of Mark.

Jacob Prahlow completes his series on the Odes of Solomon and the Gospel of John. James McGrath posts his impressions of the Enoch Seminar's dedicated session at AAR/SBL on Adele Reinhartz's book Cast Out of the Covenant: Jews and Anti-Judaism in the Gospel of John. Johnson Thomaskutty writes on the Characterization of Thomas in the fourth Gospel. Andrew Perriman writes in response to Michael Bird, on the church and the mission of Jesus. "Did they succeed? Fail? Or did someone move the goalposts?" Ken Schenck points out his work on Mark and Acts as part of his project Through the Bible in Ten Years. Richard Beck continues his series on the gospel according to the Lord of the Rings.

A Matthean Thunderbolt?

Ian Paul republished a post on the influence of John on the synoptic gospels, and explores a spoof on choosing your own Jesus. It being that time of the year, he also did a review of the temptations of Jesus. Michael Pahl encourages following the teaching on economics from Jesus. Jim Gordon would have us consider ornitheology. His series for Lent holds promise. Here is the leap-day special, the pearl. Chuck Jones points out Vizualizing Acts, graphic online support for reading Acts.

Letters

... What do you say

James Tabor writes about What Paul claimed to have seen.

Tim Gombis explores chapters 2 to 5 of Romans with particular reference to boasting. Andrew Perriman posts on theological prisons vs historical readings of Romans.

Michael Kok continues his series on Corinthians, beginning with notes on Peter, and Apollos. James McGrath points to a note on Paul's letter carriers. Henry Neufeld writes about How to Read Hebrews 4. Revelation

... It won't be long

Very short parade. The tail of the Krewe of the NT Mike Aubrey wants more language resources for translation. Marg Mowcsko talks about "preaching" words in the NT. The tail of the first two Krewes Pete Enns and Jared Byas have some advice to their fellow citizens on how to read the Bible in 2020. Jim West reviews the Jesus Bible, i.e. how not to read the Bible.

Other Krewes

... How many powers

James McGrath posts on the SpaceX Rocket bouncing off the firmament. You can watch the whole thing with exegetical commentary from a booster seat. Just click on the image.

Archaeology Jim Davila asks if Solomon's temple had competition? He also has some thoughts on information in a vitrified brain. And a list of posts on the BAR spring 2020 release including one from the original xkv8r. Todd Bolen reports on extensive ruins of a Canaanite temple dating to the 12th century BCE at Lachish. Yana Tchekhanovets and Leonid Belyaev write about Russian archaeology in The Ancient Near East Today. Textual criticism

Drew Longacre reports on Feature-extraction methods for historical manuscript dating based on handwriting analysis. James McGrath gets around to writing up the 2019 Digital Humanities AAR/SBL sessions in San Diego. Jim West quotes Jerome in defense of errors in his rendering of the Bible. Sarah Allen interviews Zachary Cole on his chapter in Myths and Mistakes.

Theology and Liturgy

Great St Mary's, the Selwyn Consort via the Minerva Festival

Sarah MacDonald presents "Silent in the Churches", an exploration of Music in the liturgy by female composers. NT Wright explains penal substitution, 'according to the Scriptures'. And here's a C.R.A.S.S.H course on explaining. Who knew that James McGrath was an award winning Mandaic poet? Matt Page is still blogging about Bible films. Here is an entry on the Netflix Messiah. Both Bosco Peters and Airtonjo have things to point out about Querida Amazônia. John Bergsma on the Sacred Page lays out the lessons for the sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Alex Finkelson at Scribes of the Kingdom wonders about the promises to David. A slightly early entry for the Revelation parade from Doug Chaplin. (Ah well, February is a short month and January is long, so let's give them 30 days each this year... and he is still writing occasionally.) Bart Ehrman has some interesting questions from Buddhists. John Jillions writes on the religious attitudes of some famous Roman skeptics. Journals and Reviews and other things James McGrath points out a new open-access Journal of Religious Competition in Antiquity. James also notes this announcement on Women interpreting the Scripture through music and the arts. Kelsi Morrison-Atkins reviews Moshe Blidstein. Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature. 'Blidstein guides the reader through the “web of allusions” that characterized early Christian purity discourses in the first through third centuries.' Noah Benjamin Bickart reviews Paula Fredricksen's When Christians were Jews. "If anything is missing in her excellent book, it is a more robust engagement with rabbinic texts." Steve Walton notes a set of essays from a conference, Healing and Exorcism in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity. Ben Witherington's book on Priscilla is reviewed by Kelley Matthews. Bart Ehrman has a very nice promotion of his book, Heaven and Hell.

Fetch

Brent Niedergall is working with Bel and the Dragon on a Reddit reading group here. Jim Davila points out Sonja Noll's book on the Semantics of Silence in Biblical Hebrew. And a collection of essays on Parables. "Essays cover parables in the synoptic Gospels, Rabbinic midrash, and parabolic tales and fables in the Babylonian Talmud. Three essays address parables in Islam and Buddhism." And Henk de Waard's Jeremiah 52, "Jeremiah 52 is not a mere appendix to the book, but a golah-oriented epilogue, indicating the contrasting destinies of pre-exilic Judah and the exilic community in Babylon." Kerry Sonia reviews Shawn Flynn's Children in Ancient Israel Kathleen Gallagher Elkins reviews The Bible and Feminism: Remapping the Field. BLT reports on Suzanne McCarthy's book as told to James McGrath by her sister Ruth Hayhoe. Phil Long reviews All Things New, Revelation as canonical capstone, by Brian Tabb.

Remembering

... And morning

Suzanne McCarthy 76 months ago reminded us of a riddle related to time. Here is a Sunday Superlatives post from the same year, 2013, from Rachel Held Evans. Jim Gordon reminds us of the 75th anniversary of the death of Bonhoeffer. The tail of the whole carnival is a reflection by Marc Zvi Brettler on the 106th yahrzeit of S. R. Driver of whom, it is said: He taught the faithful criticism and the critics faith. Read Marc's article to find out who said this and more importantly, why. And as a coda, this music, which as Matthew Larkin says, if you allow yourself the necessary time, "will leave you speechless".

Next Carnivals

Brent Niedergall hosts in March 2020 (Due April 1). Phillip Long is looking for volunteers for the rest of 2020. Contact him at plong42@gmail.com or twitter dm @plong42 to volunteer to host! ----------

(1) The carnival number is an even number higher than 148, (June 2018 - 20 months ago). The number of this February carnival is the product of the first two perfect numbers, 6 and 28, and is also the count of primes less than 1000. There are 50 words in TNK with gematria = 168. See also. (2) right hand side linked poetry snippets by James McGrath.

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