Sunday, February 25, 2024

DAILY CALL SHEET: FEBRUARY 25, 2024

 

The Dead Talk Back (1957) Do they, though? You wouldn't know it from this excruciatingly slow non-thriller about a scientist who claims, but never proves, to have a radio that lets him speak with the dead. He does use the dubious device to help solve a crossbow murder, so I guess that's something. Even if you're one of the few fans of the tell, don't show technique of filmmaking, this blab-fest will defeat you.

TIL: In the Church, Tradition is all about letting the dead talk. As G.K. Chesterton put it, "Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death."

I HAVE SOME NOTES: Continuing to doodle my fourth trip through Fr. Mike Schmitz & Ascension's Bible in a Year.




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