My wife and I recently watched The Ground Truth, a great documentary on the Iraq war, particularly its effect on the women and men who fight it. This 78-minute gem, directed by Patricia Foulkrod is pro-troops, anti-war and non-political in the sense that (as far as I remember) no politicians or political parties are [...]

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I wondered when this would finally happen. When Titanic hit video stores in the late 90s, a company called CleanFlicks began selling edited copies with nudity and foul language removed. Since then, CleanFlicks and a couple of competitors have built a nice business around cleaning up other feature films.
I sympathize with this idea, [...]

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Dave Terpstra has an interesting post at Out of Ur about the contradictory way Christian react to movies. When the first Harry Potter movie came out, there was considerable debate about whether Christians should see a film featuring a wizard-boy hero. One local church here in Kingston put an anti-witchcraft Scripture on its sign [...]

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Even though I love movies, I rarely go to the theater. But I usually make it to the multiplex for the big blockbusters that are released at Christmas (Lord of the Rings 1-3, The Chronic(what?)cles of Narnia) and at the Fourth of July (Minority Report, Terminator 3, War of the Worlds). This year I [...]

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I mentioned in my sermon on Sunday that I heard a secular film critic mention that homosexuality was a subtext behind the latest X-Men movie (about mutants and those who want to “cure” them). Even if that subtext is present, there is certainly more to the movie than that. Here’s a story (thanks [...]

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Last year I found a recommendation at Christianity Today Movies for a documentary called Stevie. It was praised so highly that I knew I had to rent it. I finally did and after watching it last night, I haven’t thought about much else since. Stevie is a study of a young man [...]

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United 93 is a film I knew I should see, but probably wouldn’t have, except that my Thursday Bible Study group decided that we would. I’m glad I did.
The film begins with four young men in their hotel rooms, praying, shaving, preparing. We see passengers arriving at the airport, checking in, chatting on [...]

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Here’s a Reuters story by Claudia Parsons about how Hollywood has reassessed religious movies in light of the success of The Passion and Narnia. The article reminds me that people thought Gibson’s foreign-language Jesus film was going to be the least commercial movie ever made until a month or two before it opened. [...]

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We just got back from the stores at Turkey Creek where I perused the book sections at Target and Wal-Mart, and I noticed an interesting thing: Not only are Dan Brown’s books everywhere (The Da Vinci Code and others) but half-a-dozen other fiction authors have also “found religion” and have produced new novels about conspiracies [...]

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Peter T. Chattaway of Christianity Today has posted a list of his top ten Jesus movies. I’ve seen only four of his picks - The Passion, The Miracle Maker (a wonderful animated movie from 2000), The Greatest Story Ever Told (with a slow-paced but interesting performance by Max von Sidow as Jesus) and Jesus, [...]

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