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October 2014

October 08, 2014

“Vegetative” patients who respond to Hitchcock

Neuroscientist Adrian Owen has been studying the brain activity of people who are in a...

October 03, 2014

A Christian movie without the Christianity

A new "Left Behind" movie comes out today, this one with Nicholas Cage and big...

September 2014

September 05, 2014

Taking Lassie straight to merchandising

The Hollywood studio DreamWorks has the rights to Lassie, the TV show about a heroic...

August 2014

August 21, 2014

Death of a Lutheran saint. . .

. . .and sinner too of course, but Norwegian Bishop Børre Knudsen lived a life...

August 06, 2014

A true comic book movie

After lamenting the state of summer movies, we finally saw one that was just right...

July 2014

July 25, 2014

What happened to summer movies?

Summers are usually the season to go to the movies, when studios released their fun...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

Hollywood, desire, & the Santa Barbara murders

Washington Post critic Ann Hornaday on the Santa Barbara murders: As deranged manifestos go, the...

April 2014

April 17, 2014

The vocation of a movie critic

Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday "came out," as they say, as a Christian, writing...

April 07, 2014

The movie vs. the flannelboard

We saw the movie Noah. It had some good cinematic touches (such as the imagery...

April 05, 2014

Actor who played Frodo’s Sam is a Lutheran

Sean Astin, who played Samwise Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings movies, has gotten...

April 04, 2014

Noah, the Kabbalah, and Gnosticism

If you've seen the movie Noah, you might have wondered about where the filmmaker is...

April 03, 2014

Classical education goes to the movies

Classical education does quite a bit with aesthetics and encourages deep reflection on works of...

March 2014

March 29, 2014

What did you think of the movie “Noah”?

Have any of you seen the movie Noah? What is your verdict? After the jump,...

February 2014

February 24, 2014

“Scare the living daylights out of nonbelievers”

Final: The Rapture is another end times movie. It's billed as a "Christian horror movie." ...

February 24, 2014

The Lego Movie

From the other extreme of Final: The Rapture, I found myself watching The Lego Movie...

February 18, 2014

Why the family & the church are prior to the state

In the context of a discussion of the movie The Wolf of Wall Street, Dr....

February 07, 2014

George Clooney after “Batman & Robin”

George Clooney is a successful actor, director, and producer. But the turning point in his...

February 05, 2014

An actor’s death by heroin

On Monday, a complete stranger came up to me and said, "Hey, you know who...

February 03, 2014

Oscar winner sees “faith-based bigotry”

A Hollywood heavyweight weighs in on the "Alone Yet Not Alone" controversy. From the Hollywood...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

Oscars rescind “Alone Yet not Alone” nomination

The Academy Award nomination of the small-budget Christian movie Alone Yet Not Alone for best...

January 20, 2014

“Alone yet Not Alone” gets Oscar nomination

Alone yet not Alone is one of those small but ambitious "faith-based-films" that usually get...

January 13, 2014

The real Osage County

I grew up in northern Oklahoma, so I've been noting with bemusement how Osage County...

January 09, 2014

Move the nation’s capital to Nebraska

We talk about politics here at the Cranach blog, being careful to keep the two...

December 2013

December 27, 2013

Best movies of 2013?

You tell me. What do you think was the best movie of 2013?

December 24, 2013

My take on “The Hobbit” 2

We're on the road, and Friday we were caught in the ice storm in Oklahoma...

November 2013

November 29, 2013

“Son of God,” the movie

A movie entitled The Son of God will be released February 28. An expanded version...

November 06, 2013

What’s really demonic

William Peter Blatty is the author of The Exorcist, a novel about demonic possession. He...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

Bible movies in the works

Major Hollywood studios are working on movies based on stories from the Bible. See the...

August 2013

August 05, 2013

Hollywood’s collaboration with the Nazis

The Hollywood Reporter has published excerpts from a new book documenting the ways that the...

June 2013

June 17, 2013

Thumbs up for “Man of Steel”

Critics are torn over Man of Steel, the new Superman movie, though the general public...