Hide Your Smiling Faces (Carbone 2013)
The most commented upon feature of Daniel Patrick Carbone's directorial debut, Hide Your Smiling Faces, is its hushed volume.
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Noah (Aronofsky, 2014)
Minority opinions are important things, particularly in Christian circles where they are rarely trumpeted or met with as much charity or respect as they ought to be. So it is worth disagreeing publicly if not to persuade, at least to model that it can be done without vitriol or condemnation.
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Bad Words (Bateman, 2013)
Bad Words is the third film I have seen in as many weeks featuring an emotionally arrested adult male mentoring an adolescent boy.
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The Jesus Film (Krish and Sykes, 1979)
The place of The Jesus Film in such a catalog is idiosyncratic. Made as an evangelism tool rather than a commercial film, its reach has exceeded that of many Hollywood blockbusters.
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Ukraine is Not a Brothel (Green, 2013)
When I first heard of Femen, a group of "feminists" who protest...something (everything?) by baring their breasts in public and selling images of topless members, I assumed it was a front group for selling porn.
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Veronica Mars Giveaway — Win a Free DVD
Hey readers, were you as excited about the Veronica Mars movie as I was? Have you seen the film yet? Check out my review at Christianity Today for my take… Continue reading "Veronica Mars Giveaway — Win a Free DVD"
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The Incredibles (Bird, 2004) — 10 Years Later
Of all the films I reviewed in 2004, The Incredibles is surely the one I’ve rewatched the most—and the one I would most readily rewatch again. If it takes ten years or even longer for an Incredibles sequel, I’ll be here.
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Sing Over Me (Kindberg, 2014)
Fewer subjects at the intersection of faith and culture are more inflammatory than that of changing sexual orientation.
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The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (Fiennes, 2012)
It's possible, I suppose, to like movies and not like Slavoj Žižek, who I usually describe as the lunatic genius from another dimension.