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September 2015

September 02, 2015

Ben Hur, 1925: When Christian Movies Were Just … Movies

A few days ago, a reporter interviewed me about the Christian movie industry—whether there should...

August 2015

August 28, 2015

Attention Hollywood: Here’s What Moviegoers Actually Want to See

It's been a great year for women in movies. Check out the year's 15 top-grossing...

August 26, 2015

A Peek at the Christian Movie Woodlawn

If there's anything the Tim Tebow phenomenon has taught us, we Christians love our Christian...

August 24, 2015

American Ultra: Monkeying Around With Free Will

You can count the things that American Ultra’s Mike Howell loves on three fingers: his...

August 19, 2015

Remembering Robin (Part Two)

To mark the sad anniversary of Robin Williams' death, Esther O'Reilly posted last week the...

August 17, 2015

The Poignant Wisdom of Stephen Colbert

GQ features former-fake-conservative-blowhard-turned-Late-Show-host Stephen Colbert in its newest issue. And Joel Lovell's cover story, "The...

August 14, 2015

Ricki and the Flash Shows Us What Courage Really Looks Like

There's courage aplenty on the summer's movie screens: Hey, there's Ethan Hunt hopping on the...

August 12, 2015

Remembering Robin (Part One)

A year ago yesterday, we learned that Robin Williams was dead. I remember where I...

August 10, 2015

Fantastic Four: Proof That Not Every Superhero Needs a Dark Reboot

Reed Richards feels really, really bad for what he did to Ben Grimm. He tells...

August 05, 2015

The 33: A Miner Miracle

Five years ago today (Aug. 5), 33 Chilean miners were trapped nearly a half a...

August 03, 2015

The Messy MacGuffins of Mission: Impossible

It might be a briefcase. A treasure map. A priceless statue of a falcon. A...

July 2015

July 31, 2015

The Aurora Theater Shooter: What Would Batman Do?

It's been about three months since the Aurora theater shooting trial began. A jury has already...

July 27, 2015

Southpaw: Blind, But Now I See

The eye always gave him trouble. It was the price Billy Hope paid for the...

July 24, 2015

The Power of Story

I'm actually in the mountains of Colorado right now, climbing hills and dodging coyotes. But I...

July 20, 2015

We’re All Trainwrecks

Let's get this out of the way first: Amy Schumer's Trainwreck was a crass, salacious...

July 13, 2015

Batman v. Superman’s Super, and Spiritual, New Trailer

So the new Comic-Con trailer for Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice has been out...

July 10, 2015

To Be Or Not To Be? That’s the Question for the Christian Movie Genre

"Have you seen God's Not Dead yet?" An elderly gentleman at my gym asks me...

July 08, 2015

What Bill Cosby’s Still Teaching Us

I've learned a lot from Bill Cosby. I learned how to deal with everything from...

July 06, 2015

The Best Use of a Semicolon Ever

I’ve always felt that the semicolon was a woefully underused bit of punctuation. While other...

July 01, 2015

The Spiritual Wind of Jazz Artist Kirk Whalum

Christian music, like Christianity itself, is a many-faceted thing. It encompasses Handel's Messiah and "Amazing...

June 2015

June 29, 2015

Yes, Even Foul-Mouthed Teddy Bears Can Speak to Grace

Ted 2 pretty much bombed this weekend, and it deserved it. The original Ted was...

June 25, 2015

Taking a Pilgrimage With Phil Cousineau

I think God likes a good walk. It seems like lots of biblical characters had...

June 23, 2015

Looking Inside Inside Out

Pixar is like the Christmas morning of movie studios, but without the inevitable disappointment. Almost...

June 19, 2015

Peanuts’ Lovable Losers

The new trailer for The Peanuts Movie came out a couple of days ago. And...

June 16, 2015

Game of Thrones: Naked and Ashamed

Game of Thrones concluded its fifth season with, as it always does, a lot of...

June 10, 2015

Movies That Make You Want to Travel

Summertime is vacation time. I'm on vacation right now. Maybe you are, too. Or maybe...

June 07, 2015

Tomorrowland: An Exercise in Faith

It’ll be a big year for the Mouse House. Avengers: Age of Ultron is the...

June 03, 2015

Behind the Curtain With Beyond the Mask

Most of us know what a Christian movie looks like: It’s a gentle kitchen-table drama....

June 01, 2015

San Andreas: How Jesus and The Rock Look Alike (If You Squint a Little)

San Andreas is exactly the movie you'd expect it to be. There are no unexpected...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

God Promises Forgiveness, Not a TV Show

I don't know much about the Duggar family. I've never watched an episode of 17...

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