Heaven is For Real and God’s Not Dead are not Christian movies. They are not even religious movies. They are schmaltzy, vacuous, “inspirational” movies. […Calvary] is a dark, dark comedy. I found myself laughing...
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Kenneth R. Morefield is a busy blogger at Patheos’ 1MoreFilmBog. Here are some of his recent entries: Dream Deceivers: The Story Behind James Vance vs. Judas Priest (Taylor, 1992) …Dream Deceivers stops short of...
“Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.” – Luke 23:34 This seems to be the underlying message in “Fight Church,” the documentary film tying mixed martial arts (MMA) together...
All of this incessant madness and irrationality is interrupted sporadically by Mike Papantino, the Christian co-host of radio programme Ring of Fire. The camera captures Papantino in his studio as he articulately despairs of...
Filmwell, an excellent film commentary site had four posts the last ten days The wrote about an episode of the TV series Rectify titled Mazel Tov: Rectify marks the first time I have seen a...
Katrin Gebbe’s first feature, Nothing Bad Can Happen, quite impressively made it all the way to Cannes in 2013. It is a hard enough film to watch that it met with mixed reception. From...
Cannibal (★) is a love story–at least it purports to be–between a mild-mannered tailor and the woman he can’t quite bring himself to murder. Before it comes to its inevitable (and overdue) conclusion, he...
Viewing Spielberg’s 1993 sci-fi classic through the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s lens… The characters in Jurassic Park probably wouldn’t find much common ground with the Rebbe’s science, but the film and Chabad nonetheless share a number...
Richard Lindsay ponders on the different theologies of atonement in his entry at Pop Theology on Les Mis and the Doctrine of Atonement. His conclusion: …the theology of Resurrection fits Jean Valjean’s experience as...