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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Michael Medved wrote an interesting article for USA Today about the reaction (or lack ot it) of conservative Christians to Brokeback Mountain. While secular critics have tried to best each other in singing the movie’s praises, Christians have been relatively silent about it. No major evangelical organization has called for a boycott. [...]

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Here’s some hilarious fun with movie trailers. A little music puts a new spin on Back to the Future and Top Gun. Also, I heard someone once say that the romantic hit Sleepless in Seattle isn’t all that far removed from a stalker flick. The trailer here proves it.
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Christianity Today Movies has posted a list of Black History Classics, films about the black experience from the past eighty years. These movies have all been released recently on DVD in honor of Black History Month.
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Christianity Today Movies just posted their picks for the most redeeming films from last year. This list has introduced me to some great and worthwhile films in the past. As for this year, well, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe did NOT finish first. What do they mean by “redeeming”? Here’s what they say:”What [...]

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I highly recommend this new film which is currently in wide theatrical release. It tells the story of Jim Elliot, Steve Saint, and other missionaries who were killed in Ecuador in 1956 by the tribe they were trying to reach, and it focuses on how God used that tragedy to bring many in that tribe [...]

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Today’s theme - You Are In Control. You choose when you want to listen to music or watch a movie or TV show, and you choose the content. The old model that I grew up with was that the radio station or TV channel set the schedule and your choices were “take it [...]

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