Young Director

The Oscars were awarded last night. I didn't watch, but I did read the results shortly before typing up today's post.

Which brings me to Christianity Today's "Reader's Choice" of the top movies in 2007. It's not the Oscars, but CT's readers did pick many of the same movies that Hollywood saw fit to award last night.

Their complete list is here. Good stuff if you're looking for an entertaining, challenging, or engrossing DVD in the coming months.

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SIGNS YOUR MOVIE WAS DIRECTED BY A TEN-YEAR OLD

The action hero's pithy catchphrase is, "You're not the boss of me!"

It's a horror film called, "Cooties on Elm Street."

The hero and villain settle their differences by playing Yu-Gi-Oh ... to the DEATH!

In the critical supermarket scene, Tom Hanks says "melons" and shooting is shut down for two days until the director stops giggling.

The working title of the film changed from, "The Aching Sunset of Forever" to "Poopy McPoopypants and His Laser Snotrocket."

[selected from Chris White's Top Five for Movies]

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WORD for YOUR WEEK: In Normandy, France, there is a region called Calvados, and in that region is the Valley of Vire. There, in the 1400s, Olivier Basselin composed satirical songs. These songs became known as "chansons du Vau de Vire" which means "songs of the Valley of Vire." How does that apply to this week's word? That French phrase was shortened and eventually came into use here in America as a type of entertainment known as "vaudeville." A tip o'the Mark's Musings cap to Anu Garg over at Wordsmith.

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