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	Starburst #312: Starburst #312, July issue — Angel
		As the mastermind behind Buffy The Vampire Slayer and its spin-off, Angel, Whedon has perfected the art of creating imaginative, tragic and, at times, bemusing methods of dispatching all sorts of demons, ghouls, spooks and various other critters.
		The numbers from The WB itself showed that Angel’s ratings were up from last season, in part because of changes to the show that network requested and Whedon readily agreed to, including the shifting of the reluctant good-guy vampire Spike (James Marsters) from Buffy and the use of more self-inclusive episodes.
		Three months after the bomb was dropped, and just days before the Angel finale was scheduled to air, the fallout was still evident.
	www.visimag.com /starburst/312_feat01.htm (518 words)

	Xfm Film Of The Month: Constantine (15)
		Born with a gift he didn't want, the ability to clearly recognise the half-breed angels and demons that walk the earth in human skin, Constantine was driven to take his own life to escape the tormenting clarity of his vision.
		When a desperate but sceptical police detective (Rachel Weisz) enlists his help in solving the mysterious death of her beloved twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists just beneath the contemporary Los Angeles.
		Question: Keanu Reeves went up against the Devil in which 1997 film starring Al Pacino and Charlize Theron?
	www.xfm.co.uk /Article.asp?id=69602 (323 words)

	Dark Moon Rising - Reviews
		Angels & Demons is a thrilling read, worthy of becoming a big-budget blockbuster film.
		Seldom is a novel so outstanding that I truly can�t put it down, but Angels & Demons is that good.
		Dan Brown, Angels & Demons (Pocket Books, in paperback June 2001)
	www.darkmoonrising.com /reviews?file=brown (323 words)

	Constantine - Film Information - FilmFocus.Co.UK
		"Constantine, based on the DC comic book Hellblazer, tells the story of John [Constantine] (Keanu Reeves), a man gifted with the ability to see angels and demons who walk the Earth, and who uses this power to make his living as a supernatural detective.
		[Constantine] secretly hopes to buy his way into heaven by helping those possessed by demons (he is denied entry because of a previous suicide attempt), and may get his chance when a police detective (Rachel Weisz) asks him to investigate the mysterious death of her twin sister."
		One of Keanu Reeves's best performances to recent date and desserves to be up as one of the best "comic to film" pictures as it involved some great cinematic moments.
	www.filmfocus.co.uk /filmdetail.asp?FilmbaseID=240 (183 words)

	Frailty 'demonizes' its sinners
		First, assuming the visions are correct, it seems the 'demons' destroyed by the father and his son are not really fallen angels, but humans who have committed great sins.
		But just as it would be wrong to write the film off altogether, it would also be wrong to excuse some of the more subtle attitudes embodied by the film or its main characters.
		Rather than see them as people who need redemption, the father dehumanizes and literally 'demonizes' his victims.
	www.canadianchristianity.com /cgi-bin/na.cgi?bc/bccn/0502/artfrailty (183 words)

	Constantine - ComingSoon.net Film Database
		Born with a gift he didn't want, the ability to recognize the half-breed angels and demons that walk the earth in human camouflage, Constantine (Keanu Reeves) was driven to take his own life to escape the tormenting clarity of his vision.
		Constantine will fight to save your soul but he doesn't want your admiration or your thanks — and certainly not your sympathy.
		Resuscitated against his will, he found himself cast back into the land of the living.
	www.comingsoon.net /films.php?id=6271 (265 words)

	Comic Book Resources - CBR News - The Comic Brief
		When Constantine teams up with skeptical policewoman Angela Dodson to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists just beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.
		John Constantine is a man who has literally been to hell and back in the Warner Bros. Pictures film Constantine, a supernatural thriller based on the long-running hit DC Comics/VERTIGO HELLBLAZER graphic novels.
		This January, DC Comics will celebrate the February 18, 2005 opening of the Warner Bros. Pictures film Constantine, starring Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz, with commemorative publications from VERTIGO and two movie-inspired items from DC Direct.
	www.comicbookresources.com /news/newsitem.cgi?id=4444 (776 words)

	Constantine
		Born with a gift he didn't want, the ability to clearly recognize the half-breed angels and demons that walk the earth in human skin, Constantine (KEANU REEVES) was driven to take his own life to escape the tormenting clarity of his vision.
		"Despite the professionalism of its stars, Constantine is another rip-off of The Matrix, The Omen and a hundred other films, gussied up with 21st-century effects and attitude.
		"The film resembles nothing so much as a punctured tire with a slow leak, letting all the air seep out until what's finally left is flat and fairly ineffectual."
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/constantine (1064 words)

	In Music We Trust - NON: Children Of The Black Sun
		As frightening as most classic horror film soundtracks, NON produces a perfect audio underworld for horrific creatures like vampires, demons and ghouls.
		It doesn't help as well, when he mixes in the sound of fires burning (envision hell) and angels singing on "The Fountain Of Fortune", as well as the voice of the creepiest man on earth on "Son Of The Sun".
		Falling somewhere between David Lynch and Anne Rice, Children Of The Black Sun is a continuous mix of black noise.
	www.inmusicwetrust.com /articles/59r42.html (1064 words)

	Faust (1994)
		The visitations by angels and demons are fairly hallucinatory stuff - giant stone heads that roll through gardens and down onto poles where they are performed as human-sized puppets replete with visible hands.
		Svankmajer’s subsequent feature films were Conspirators of Pleasure (1996), a surreal film about sexual fetishism, and the hilarious Otesanek/Little Otek (2000) about a mother who decides to treat a log of wood as a baby.
		There’s also a wonderful live-action sight gag where Faust goes to an outdoor cafe and is handed a drill and bit and a wineglass and indicated to drill into the table - he does, whereupon a fount of wine gushes forth from the tabletop.
	www.moria.co.nz /fantasy/faust94.htm (1064 words)

	Squibnocket Partners LLC :: With All Eyes Focused on the Da Vinci Code Movie, What Will the Sequel Be About?
		The two earlier books, Secrets of the Code and Secrets of Angels and Demons, are each New York Times and international bestsellers.
		Excitement is already building over the May 17 premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and the May 19 worldwide release of the Da Vinci Code film starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou.
		A brand new, updated paperback edition of Secrets of the Code, the essential reader's guide to The Da Vinci Code book and movie, will be published in March by CDS Books/Perseus Books Group.
	sev.prnewswire.com /film-motion-picture/20060202/NYTH16802022006-1.html (580 words)

	New York Daily News - Home - Lights! Action! Sacrilege?
		Brown's "Angels and Demons," the forerunner to "The Da Vinci Code," also features Langdon; his follow-up book is due this year.
		It turns out that many of these ideas come from a 1982 nonfiction treatise by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln called "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" (which Brown cited as a source).
		In fact, late last year Baigent and Leigh filed a breach of copyright lawsuit against Brown in the U.K. Now there are several books that sift through the fact and fiction of Brown's novel, including "Secrets of the Code: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind the Da Vinci Code."
	www.nydailynews.com /front/story/324867p-277231c.html (1004 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Angels & Demons
		Angels and Demons, like The Da Vinci Code, is a fast-paced and interesting read.
		I gave Angels and Demons a "hall-pass" on many things he passed off as Catholic, but when I saw how badly he completely "wiffed" on the stance of the Church with regards to artifictial insemination, it was clear he had not even asked a priest, let alone a lay Catholic to confirm it.
		Angels & Demons is a no-holds-barred, pull-out-all-the-stops, breathless tangle of a thriller--think Katherine Neville's The Eight (but cleverer) or Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum (but more accessible).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/0743486226 (1004 words)

	Constantine
		Constantine has the ability to see what we cannot: the devil, demons and angels.
		Demons, angels, and those caught in between prepare for "something big" that is about to happen.
		So we just follow John and Angela in a hell-bent struggle against the demons to stop whatever bad is about to happen from happening; all the while, John is facing his own internal demons (the real meat of the story that I couldn't care less about).
	www.moviepatron.com /moviereviews/c/constantine.html (784 words)

	The Aisle Seat - Constantine
		Keanu Reeves plays John Constantine, a man who was born with the ability to see “half-breeds” — angels and demons that walk the earth, trying to influence the behavior of unsuspecting humans.
		Constantine explains that there is a great “balance” in the universe: angels and demons co-exist but never interact directly with humans.
		John Constantine is technically damned to hell for committing suicide, even though he openly wants to go to Heaven and even takes action to earn his way in.
	www.geocities.com /gamut_mag/constant.htm (1128 words)

	no loss for words
		Dan Brown is a fraud: A list of errors in Angels and Demons
		What follows is a list of errors found in Angels and Demons.
		Why a person working for a British company in the juristriction of the Holy See would quote (what I believe is) an US law is beyond me. And would a professional videographer ever refer to a video tape as "film"?
	www.dannyscl.net /2005/01/dan-brown-is-fraud-list-of-errors-in.html (15003 words)

	Steve Beard on Constantine on National Review Online
		The film is a mind-bending, theology-probing, fear-stirring journey through the graphic and relentless underworld battles between angels and demons.
		God and the devil are not allowed to directly intervene in earthly affairs, but there are a species of half-breed demons and angels who are allowed to influence humans.
		Constantine's blessing and curse is that he can see these supernatural beings and is drawn into a strange suicide case of the twin of Angela Dodson, a street-savvy Los Angeles policewoman (Rachel Weisz).
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/beard200502180804.asp (15003 words)

	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
		The film begins when a postcard comes to life, and the image of a smoke-belching train dissolves into tableaus of sailing ships and bathers, finally ending on an excursion ship heading to the small community where our two main characters live.
		Later, when the man fights the demons of his obsession with the other woman, we see her superimposed twice, once large above him and smaller below him as if leaning up to kiss him.
		The film plays around with conceptions of city and country.
	www.sloppyfilms.com /murnau/sunrise.htm (929 words)

	“Sweet” Man Gets Best Actor Nomimation
		A former successful business owner, with a dark and checkered past, Man made the transition to being a full time actor about five years ago, bringing with him the angels and demons that make him the intense, yet sensitive performer he is today.
		In classic film noir fashion, Stewart brings the nuances of the Golden age back with the dark mood, style and tone of the film; elements so well known and loved in the classic detective movies of yesteryear.
		Best Actor Nominee Steven Man and John Ashton (Beverly Hills Cop I, II) star in Best Picture Nominee "Sweet Deadly Dreams".
	www.prweb.com /releases/2005/9/inktomi290447.php (929 words)

	CNN.com - Review: Heaven, hell and middling 'Constantine' - Feb 18, 2005
		Based on a character from the DC comics "Hellblazer" series, Constantine is cursed by the images of half-breed angels and demons who roam the world -- in this case, the streets of Los Angeles.
		Her investigation leads to Constantine and she's drawn into his world of demons and half-breeds.
		Since this story is based on Catholic dogma, and suicide is a mortal sin, Constantine is destined to return to hell at the end of his life here on earth.
	www.cnn.com /2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/18/review.constantine (767 words)

	WORTHPLAYING - - All about games !
		You are cast as irreverent mystic detective John Constantine and must embark on an investigation in a world of demons and angels that exists just beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.
		Bits Studios’ Constantine is a blurred shadow of both the film upon which it is based, and Hellblazer, the comic book upon which the film is based, upon which, in turn, this malformed videogame is based.
		Constantine has little explanation of the storyline, and little semblance of a coherent narrative even if you already know the ins and outs of the Hellblazer series.
	www.worthplaying.com /article.php?sid=24013 (1099 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Constantine
		At one point, Constantine needs to consult Midnite (Djimon Hounsou), a former witch doctor who runs a private nightclub where half-angels and half-demons can get half-loaded and talk shop.
		Constantine knows he is doomed to hell because he once tried to kill himself, and is trying to rack up enough frames against the demons to earn his way into heaven.
		Later in the film, to show Angela that she also has the gift of seeing the world behind the world, Constantine holds her underwater in a bathtub until she passes out and sees the torments of hell.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050217/REVIEWS/50202001/1023 (1099 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Constantine (xhtml)
		At one point, Constantine needs to consult Midnite (Djimon Hounsou), a former witch doctor who runs a private nightclub where half-angels and half-demons can get half-loaded and talk shop.
		Constantine knows he is doomed to hell because he once tried to kill himself, and is trying to rack up enough frames against the demons to earn his way into heaven.
		Later in the film, to show Angela that she also has the gift of seeing the world behind the world, Constantine holds her underwater in a bathtub until she passes out and sees the torments of hell.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050217/REVIEWS/50202001/1023 (868 words)

	DC comic blazes to screen - Connection - Features
		Reeves ("The Matrix") plays the nicotine-addicted John Constantine, a man with the ability to see half-breed demons and angels walking among us.
		Constantine is based on the DC graphic novel "Hellblazer." In his directorial debut, famed music video director Lawrence took the ideas of the graphic novel and turned it into a two hour-long music video.
		"Constantine's" version of heaven seemed awfully similar to the Zion scene from "The Matrix" with giant skyscrapers floating atop clouds and the sun blaring in the background.
	www.crcconnection.com /news/2005/03/03/Features/Dc.Comic.Blazes.To.Screen-886405.shtml (868 words)

	Ink 19 :: Constantine
		Constantine was born with a special gift that allows him to see the demons, angels and half-breeds that walk amongst our waking world.
		Constantine works as a suspense film because it has all the integral elements of a good scare flick: horror, religious iconography, dark humor and of course, lost souls needing redemption.
		Constantine looks great and does a fantastic job of offering fun, fright and folderol for those who want pure escapism from their film or love a good supernatural thriller.
	www.ink19.com /issues/february2005/screenReviews/constantine.html (868 words)

	Constantine (2005): Reviews
		Born with a gift he didn't want, the ability to clearly recognize the half-breed angels and demons that walk the earth in human skin, Constantine (Reeves) was driven to take his own life to escape the tormenting clarity of his vision.
		Constantine will likely hold far more interest for devoted fans of the series, but it's not necessary to have read the books to appreciate the film's sumptuous visuals and art direction.
		Constantine is a one-of-a-kind hybrid: a theological noir action film.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/constantine (2057 words)

	Sight and Sound - Raising Hell
		Most celebrated of the accounts, however, is Aldous Huxley's 1952 classic The Devils of Loudun, which is credited on Russell's movie — alongside John Whiting's stageplay The Devils (first performed by the RSC in 1961) — and which had already provided the inspiration for Jerzy Kawalerowicz's respected Polish film Mother Joan of the Angels (1961).
		Handing Father Barre a holy relic which he claims to be a phial of Christ's own blood, the king watches in amusement as his gift swiftly drives the demons from the gibbering nuns before being revealed to be nothing but an empty box.
		The second was myself, a critic who had long argued against the censorship of extreme cinema and who was now engaged in a crusade to reinstate the censored scenes cut from Russell's film prior to its 1971 release.
	www.bfi.org.uk /sightandsound/2002_12/feature02_raising_hell.html (2057 words)

	Comic-Con 2004 :: Friday's Programming
		When he teams up with skeptical policewoman Katelin Dodson (Rachel Weisz) to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists just beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.
		Also making an appearance will be the stars of the upcoming film Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, John Cho and Kal Penn. New Line Home Entertainment will also present a first look at The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Special Extended DVD Edition.
		This hour-long presentation will debut select clips from the extended version of the film and will include a panel discussion featuring key cast and crew members who were involved in the creation of the extended DVD.
	www.comic-con.org /cci2004/CCI04-ProgFri.shtml (7434 words)

	Anime News Service - July 27 - August 19 Anime News
		He's next in line to be the magical guardian of his country, but before he can assume that responsibility, he'll have to confront demons, angels, friends and his own insecurities.
		In their pdf file which can be accessed at this location, it's mentioned that Anno's "Ryu-sei Kacho" will be part of Clermont-Ferrand film festival which selects and plays shorts from around the world.
		Hong Kong born Wu Shu extraordinaire Jackie Chan has entertained film and TV audiences for more than 25 years.
	www.animenewsservice.com /archives/aug15.htm (8121 words)

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