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.
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Endless Love (Feste, 2014)
Endless Love is a bad movie, and, yeah, I pretty much liked it.
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The 904: Shadow of the Sunshine State (Goodin II and Santana, 2010)
The 904: Shadow of the Sunshine State is a documentary about Jacksonville, which has the highest rate of violent crime of any city in Florida.