“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.” -John 15:18 (ESV) When was the last time a conservative Christian was fairly represented in the media? Where are the positive examples of believing Christians that use to populate the movies and TV shows in former years? All gone, except […]
Last night at the Oscars Matthew McConaughey won the award for best actor for his unique performance in “Dallas Buyers Club.” Even more unique was his acceptance speech where he made a point of thanking God for putting him in that position in the first place: “First off, I want to thank God, because that’s […]
(Photo credit: knowhimonline) In America are we raising a new generation of children that are mostly unfamiliar with the characters, stories, and teachings of the Bible? Here’s an article from the UK Telegraph concluding that the Bible has all but disappeared from the lives of children in the UK. It got me thinking. Aside […]
Here’s an interesting article on the Blaze where Stephen Baldwin talks about how his Christian faith has impacted his Hollywood career and also his relationships with his famous brothers. Stephen says that the success of Mark Burnett’s Bible series on the History Channel has opened doors for ‘Faith-based’ films to be taken more serious in […]
(MPAA: Wikipedia) A faith-based film produced by a Southern Baptist church featuring a Gospel message is scarier than World War Z? According to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) board who gave it an ‘R’ rating it is. Here’s the story from Todd Starnes of Fox News: The zombies don’t even come close […]
They say that a picture is worth a 1,000 words well how about a whole movie? As the dust is settling on the death of Osama bin Laden, the political calculations on how this will affect the presidential election in 2012 are already in play. Some political pundits are already proclaiming Barack Obama as a […]
(Aslan via Wikipedia) Right on the eve of the release of the newest Narnia feature-The Voyage of the Dawn Treader comes a couple of idiotic PC quotes that have C.S.Lewis fans shaking their heads in disgust. First of all came the quote from Actor Liam Neeson who is the voice of Aslan in the […]
Heavy PR and advertizing notwithstanding, Green Zone opened with a miserable $14.3 million box office over the last weekend. The film was shown in over 3,000 theaters which is usually reserved for potential hits only to fall on its proverbial face. When will Hollywood ever learn. It joins a dozen or so failed anti-Bush anti-war […]
(Image by bhautikjoshi via Flickr) I hear a lot of my Christian friends talking about what a great movie ‘Avatar’ is. However, I won’t be seeing it anytime soon even though I am an avid Sci-Fi fan and would no doubt love the movie. Though I’ve heard that the film has an obvious ‘climate change’ […]
(Roman Polanski via last.fm) Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein said the following in an interview when it was pointed out that there was a wide gap between how ‘Hollywood’ folks felt about the Roman Polanski affair and how the rest of America viewed it: "Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion. We were […]
