‘Sources of Spiritual Power Are Not in the Cinema’
Are pastors more “relevant” when they refer to contemporary movies and/or include clips in their sermons? John Piper, for one, doesn’t think.
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‘Sources of Spiritual Power Are Not in the Cinema’
God in a Rom-Com?
A few years ago, a little movie called The Ultimate Gift didn’t get much attention, but it was one of my favorite “hidden gems” of 2006. The film starred Abigail Breslin (now carrying one of the main roles in My Sister’s Keeper ) as a young girl dying of cancer, part of the plot about a young man who had a lot to learn about what really matters in life. Cheryl McKay , the screenwriter of that film, has written her next screenplay, Never the Bride , which has also been turned into a novel just released by WaterBrook Press
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Gives New Meaning to ‘Family Film’
Cousins Chad and Aaron Burns know a little something about the term “family film.” The 20-something former homeschoolers got their families together to form Burns Family Studio, scraped together $250,000, and took three years to make Pendragon: Sword of His Father , which won a “2009 Indie Best of Show” award at the Indie Film Festival . We haven’t seen the film yet, but we have seen the trailer –and for a production made by amateurs, for so little money, it looks surprisingly good.
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‘Stoning’ Actress Gets It Wrong
Robert Spencer of American Thinker calls out Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo (pictured here) for statements she made when publicizing her new film, The Stoning of Soraya M . Spencer cites of few of Aghdashloo’s comments in an interview with the Staten Island Advance , in which she says that stoning “has been happening since the Stone Age, in Judaism, Christianity, Islam.” Spencer replies, “In fact, no,” and goes on to state his case, showing where Aghdashloo gets it wrong. Continue reading …
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Shia Seeking Something?
Right now, Shia LaBeouf has an eye on the box office stats, where monster numbers are already piling up for the Transformers sequel, which opened everywhere at midnight last night and in which the young actor plays a starring role.
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Stephen McEveety — the "deleted quotes"
My interview with Steve McEveety and Jim Caviezel, the producer and co-star respectively of The Stoning of Soraya M. , went up at CT Movies yesterday. The article focuses pretty narrowly on that one film, but I also asked McEveety about a couple other films that his company, Mpower Pictures , is working on — so here are a few “deleted quotes” from the interview.
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Jesus, Spartacus, and Monty Python
Peter Bradshaw makes a very interesting point about Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus (1960), which recently returned to British movie screens for one day only : The story of Spartacus reverses the Jesus myth: instead of getting sold out by his followers and dying a terrible death on the cross, Spartacus is protected by his troops, who are prepared to endure crucifixion rather than reveal the leader hidden in their ranks. And then Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979) came along and put the two stories together.
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Go Ask Alice
USA Today gives readers a “first look” at some images from Tim Burton’s upcoming Alice in Wonderland , including the image at right of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter. Could be Depp’s most eccentric character since . . .
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Fighting Robots Are Cool
While I wasn’t a big fan of Michael Bay’s Transformers , the 12-year-old robot geek inside me loved the bots he and his team created. I’m expecting the new movie to have the same frustrating mix of weak plot, frustrating side tangents, needless side plots and annoyingly lowest-common denominator “comic” relief
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Fighting Robots Are Cool
Read. And. Weep.
Ten-year-old Colby Curtin was dying of a rare form of cancer, but she had one last wish before her death: To see the new Pixar/Disney movie Up . But she was too ill for a trip to the theater, so when Pixar heard about it, they flew a rep to Colby’s house in Huntington Beach, CA, for a private screening in her home. Colby died seven hours later.
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