I have nothing against a good disaster movie. Write several shallow characters. Check. Insert superficial interpersonal conflict. Check. Introduce natural disaster to throw said shallow characters into. Check. Watch shallow characters carry out their superficial interpersonal conflict amidst disaster-enhanced action sequences and peril. Check ad nauseam. With Left Behind, we have disaster movie meets Christian...
An article on WND’entitled Christians Sabotage Gospel In Hollywood’blames the failure of a movie called The Identical (which I have not seen) on the fact that Christians’by and large’didn’t support the film during its opening weekend. From what I gathered in this article, The Identical contains a powerful Christian message and’according to the author Drew...
* Well, unless the sin is, like, really really big and the fight might actually cost you something. Ideas have consequences. Imagine, if you will, that I’as a husband and a father’believe that things will continue to get worse and worse in my home. I have continually taught my wife and children that their behavior...
Fans of the landmark TV show 24 have their hearts all a’flutter this week as the newest season’of half-season as it were’of the blockbuster show hits the airwaves. Instead of the usual 24 episodes depicting real-time events in the day of the life of action hero Jack Bauer (played with cold-blooded efficiency by Kiefer Sutherland),...
Super-heroes are grounded firmly in fantasy, but even they sometimes need to wake up to reality. Flying through the air, hi-tech gadgets, superhuman strength, foiling criminals, rescuing women and children’it all seems quite glamorous and fun until someone gets hurt. That’s one of the ideas explored in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and it’s an idea...
There’s a certain man vs machine’ tension hardwired in to the premise of TRANSCENDENCE, but the film is actually little more than a poorly-structured science-fiction cautionary tale with brilliant ideas to spare but with a paper-thin screenplay to hang them on. TRANSCENDENCE was made by first-time director Wally Pfister, who die-hard cinephiles will know as...
NOTE: This review is SPOILER-FREE. It’s a great time to be a Marvel comics fan. Not only have our favorite characters been realized on-screen by extremely talented actors who take their work seriously, but also by skilled screenwriters who can simply tell a good story.
I was listening to an sermon online from a local Southern Baptist church. The preacher posited the argument that one reason that the Church in America was not being influential was because the Church in America looks too much like the world around her. That’s a fair point and one that I’m not going to...
ELLEN PAGE’S SAD, TOXIC SERMON This past Valentine’s Day, actress Ellen Page made national news by coming out as a homosexual. I call what she said a sermon because she most obviously is preaching a message she thinks you need to hear. I use the adjective sad because I found the personal pain and turmoil...
There’s a line in the new film Babies Are Murdered Here that has gotten me to thinking. First of all, if you haven’t seen the film yet, honestly, what are you waiting for? Please watch it, then come back and read this blog; you may have a different perspective on what I’m arguing for. R.C....
