Who Are Today’s Wilberforces?
This looks to be an interesting new documentary to put on the radar screen:
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Who Are Today’s Wilberforces?
How Movies Shape Our Image of Jesus
In her book Jesus of Hollywood , Adele Reinhartz, a professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa, takes an objective observer’s view — she’s Jewish — of how Christ is portrayed in more than 40 films over the last century. Jesus of Hollywood is a “critical evaluation of similarities and differences found in the interpretations” in those films, writes Wayne Holst in a review in the Toronto Star . Holst, who teaches religion and culture at the University of Calgary, goes on to write, “Movies – rather than the scriptures and the churches – shape and define a lot of our contemporary cultural awareness of Jesus.
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GodFilms: Videos for Group Discussion
We recently heard about a video ministry called GodFilms , which creates short films for express purpose of helping small groups discuss relevant issues. Producer-director Steve Horswill-Johnston explains the series like this: “We set out to create a never-before-seen type of Christian discussion-spurring film. These films are about exploration, not explanation
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Avatar ‘What Moviegoers Want to See’
Our friend Ralph Winter, producer of the X-Men and Fantastic Four films, recently checked out The Book of Eli and Avatar in the theaters. And though he notes that one ( Eli ) is more intentionally religious than the other, he found more depth and meaning in the more secular film. ” Avatar , with no religious intentions, displays a world where the hero discovers an after life of sorts, finds a way to not just replace his destroyed legs, but receive a whole new body and existence,” Winter writes at The Bully Pulpit .
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More Than Golden Thrones and Big Pink Hair
Todd Hertz, a critic for CT Movies, is also a self-professed TV geek. But he’d pretty much avoided TBN — the Trinity Broadcasting Network — till a couple months ago, when, as an experiment, he watched a week of its prime-time programming just to get a better feel for what the network was all about
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Eli: Action Movie Dud? Or Christian Flick?
Los Angeles Times blogger Patrick Goldstein surmised, from the looks of the previews, that The Book of Eli was just another post-apocalyptic action flick. Then he adds, “But wait. It turns out that the movie may end up being a huge hit in the heartland, since to hear the New York Post ’s Kyle Smith tell it, the film is actually a “Christian blockbuster.” Smith, one of the few openly conservative critics at work today, .
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So, John Locke Really IS Jesus After All!
Since ABC’ s recent release of a couple of promo shots for the final season of Lost (beginning next month), fans have been crafting all sorts of theories about what various clues in the photos might (or might not) mean.
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If You REALLY Want to Be in the Know . . .
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Newsflash: Sex Doesn’t Sell!
“Although it is commonly assumed that “sex sells” in mainstream cinema, recent research indicates a far more ambiguous relation between strong sexual content and financial performance.” So goes the first line of the abstract for a new article in the journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts . “All in all, it appears that sex may neither sell nor impress. This null effect might suggest most cinematic sex is in fact gratuitous,” write the authors
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Go Ye into All The World With a Projector . . .
The JESUS film has been going around the world for three decades, successfully bringing millions to Christ through thousands of screenings globally. So while the notion of “film as evangelism” is nothing new, it’s taking on a new look — and a new urgency — among young Christians who are interested in international missions. At the recently concluded Urbana 09 student missions conference, more than 1,000 students attended sessions devoted solely to the concept of evangelistic films, according to a recent story in the St.
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