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Sci-Fi Advent

Posted by Tom Hoopes

Sunday, November 30, 2008 9:40 AM

Russell Saltzman at First Things’ blog is looking forward to The Day the Earth Stood Still.

He suspects he can guess the theme of the remake of the B classic, though: “A emissary from the galactic federation is coming to warn Earth about its bad environmental habits.”

“This is the way a lot of ‘alien as messiah’ films go,” he writes, “and the 1951 version had more than its share of religious... READ MORE

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