Short film: Five
Five children, five religions, (almost) five minutes. This short film takes us from the mundane to the sublime, from the chaotic to the peaceful, and for a moment we consider our beliefs about spirituality....
How biblical television & movies are the 21st-century cathedrals
As media and modernization threaten to strip us of our religious imagination these new forms of visual piety are important mediums for confirming, or challenging, our religious curiosities and convictions and bearing us forward...
Movie review: ‘Dial a Prayer’ isn’t a preach-to-the-choir faith-based film
No leap of faith or sudden spiritual conversion brought Cora to the dial-a-prayer call center in suburban Detroit. A judge made that her community service sentence. Because Cora made a big mistake, one with...
Pure Flix Releases ‘Pure Flix Releases ‘Faith Of Our Fathers’ Commemorating 50th Anniversary of Vietnam War
FAITH OF OUR FATHERS—a moving story of faith and friendship in time of war, and for generations—premieres nationwide July 1 as the nation commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War. A Downes Brothers...
What This All-Star Christian Movie (Do You Believe?) Gets Wrong About Christianity
If you read the reviews of “Do You Believe?”—the new Christian film from PureFlix—you will get a pretty good idea of whether you’re the movie’s intended audience. If my mind should generate some pious-sounding blurt, and...
Interview: Hal Hartley And Aubrey Plaza Talk Ned Rifle
Hartley concludes the trilogy with Ned Rifle, wherein Henry’s influence is felt by his vengeful son, Ned, as well as a young woman named Susan, whose infatuation with Henry’s teachings isn’t made immediately clear…...
Amy Kohn Explores Love And Religion In ‘a Courtship’
Kohn’s documentary explores Christian courtship, a highly conservative Christian alternative to dating. Drawing inspiration from “Amour” and “Love is Strange,” Amy Kohn’s documentary “A Courtship” exposes the intimacy of relationships and the thorniness and beauty...
Canadian Muslims Plan Film on Youth Radicalization
A crowd funding campaign has been launched to finance a new movie, Tug of War, a story of two Muslim youths who become exposed to radicalization and relates their journey to opposite ends of...
The Antkeeper (1966)
The Antkeeper is certainly a novel little movie. Just shy of half an hour and the only Jesus-as-an-ant movie I know of. It’s premise is a simple one – to explain the Gospel as...
Movie Review: When the Game Stands Tall (2014) *Why Sports Matter*
When the Game Stands Tall is not shy about incorporating the role of faith. It’s amazing how absent any statement on religion, Christian or otherwise, is from film. It doesn’t belong in a lot...