QUESTIONED BY A MONSTER MOVIE (Mt 21:28-32): Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (28 September 2008)
Someone recently handed me a DVD of “Cloverfield,” a 2008 monster movie produced by JJ Abrams of the “Lost” TV series. I had seen the provocative trailer on the Internet weeks before the release, and wanted to know why its poster showed a headless Statue of Liberty standing before a burning Manhattan skyline. I had been warned that watching it would make you dizzy because of its hand-held camera technique reminiscent of “The Blairwitch Project.” Just the same I watched the movie the first chance I got.