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November 2020

November 11, 2020

An Obi-Wan Kenobi Moment?

"We might be in an Obi-Wan Kenobi moment," says Peter Burfeind, "wherein striking Trump down...

October 2020

October 12, 2020

Sexualizing the new Tolkien TV Series

The producers of the upcoming Amazon Prime series based on Tolkien's Middle Earth are requiring...

August 2020

August 26, 2020

The End of Sex Scenes

The COVID-19 pandemic and the #MeToo movement has the film industry reconsidering sex scenes. A...

July 2020

July 31, 2020

Cultural Suicide

There have been many cultures and civilizations that no longer exist. Some were destroyed by...

January 2020

January 22, 2020

The movie "1917" appears to have been photographed in one long continuous shot, without the...

December 2018

December 06, 2018

Movie Features a Journalist of Real News, Not Fake News:

It's one thing to be in a movie. But it's even better to be of...

October 2018

October 10, 2018

Netflix to Film Chronicles of Narnia

Netflix has announced an exclusive deal with the C. S. Lewis estate to film the...

June 2018

June 13, 2018

Watch and Discuss the Video Trump Showed to Kim Jong-Un

At President Trump's summit meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, our president showed him...

June 05, 2018

Sex Offenders Told Not to Confess Their Sin

Despite the "seal of confession," priests in the Church of England are being required to...

June 01, 2018

Star Wars Sex

Brian Truitt of USA Today complains that there isn't any sex in the Star Wars universe...

May 2018

May 09, 2018

How the Real Thanos Wiped Out Millions

We finally watched Avengers: Infinity War. The super villain in that story is Thanos, who has...

February 2018

February 20, 2018

Hollywood’s New Rules for Sex Scenes in Light of #MeToo

Hollywood is reeling from the sexual abuse and harassment scandal that brought down producer Harvey...

February 02, 2018

The Movie About the Apostle Paul

Yesterday we blogged about the upcoming film The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection. But that won't be...

February 01, 2018

The Sequel to “The Passion of the Christ”

The challenge will be in turning the Resurrection appearances of our Lord into a story....

January 2018

January 16, 2018

Aristotle on What’s Wrong with Today’s Movies

I finally realized what's wrong with movies today. What Aristotle described as the least important...

August 2017

August 03, 2017

Hollywood vs. Rotten Tomatoes

As you may well know, the website Rotten Tomatoes is a review aggregator, summarizing and linking...

June 2017

June 12, 2017

Wonder Woman

We saw Wonder Woman over the weekend, which may be the summer's biggest box office...

May 2017

May 01, 2017

The Silver Chair will reboot the Narnia movies

Plans to film the Chronicles of Narnia are back on, as plans have firmed up...

April 2017

April 18, 2017

WELS president on the two versions of the Luther movie

Not only did the writer/producer of the new Luther movie, Mark Trinklein, weigh in to...

April 17, 2017

The writer and producer explains the two versions of the Luther movie

We reviewed the new dramatized documentary, Martin Luther: The Idea That Changed the World, and...

April 13, 2017

The other version of the new Luther movie

I reviewed Martin Luther: The Idea That Changed the World, the dramatized documentary produced in...

April 11, 2017

The new Martin Luther movie

Martin Luther: The Idea That Changed the World is a film funded by Thrivent to mark...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

Academy Awards fiasco

Hollywood was feeling good. The Academy Awards show featured continual Trump-bashing and the "Oscars So...

January 2017

January 11, 2017

Actors vs. Trump

Meryl Streep took the occasion of her lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes to...

January 03, 2017

Martin Scorsese on vocation

Renowned film director Martin Scorsese talks about vocation in a recent interview. He didn't make...

December 2016

December 30, 2016

Debbie Reynolds dies, one day after her daughter Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the Star Wars films, died last week. One...

December 20, 2016

The Christmas stories of Connie Willis & her favorite Christmas movies

Connie Willis is an award-winning science fiction author and a deft satirist of contemporary foibles....

December 07, 2016

Vocation in Hacksaw Ridge

Notice how many movies are about vocation. For example, consider Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson's movie...

November 2016

November 08, 2016

How China is buying up Hollywood

During the Cold War, some Americans were worried that Communists were infiltrating the motion picture...

September 2016

September 15, 2016

“Sully” screenwriter on vocation

The screenwriter for Clint Eastwood's movie Sully, about the pilot who saved his passengers by...