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  • Get Connected In 20 Minutes A Week – Family Traditions

    November 30th, 200910:24 AM ET
    By Family Values Cinema
    A weekly family activity adapted from: 52 Family Time Ideas by Timothy Smith ©2006 Draw Closer To Your Kids as You Draw Your Kids Closer to GodBethany House Publishers By Timothy Smith | www.ParentsCoach.org 1. Main Point: Our family strength and unity comes from God.2. Materials Needed: Broom stick, twine, tape & paper3. Warm Up: Ask -...

  • Cinema in Focus - PIRATE RADIO - 2 Stars

    November 24th, 200906:56 PM ET
    By Denny Wayman
    Denny Wayman and Hal Conklin Laws often have the opposite effect of their intent. Thinking that we can outlaw those moral choices that only individuals can make, government sometimes attempts to make those choices for us. When attempted, the laws can have the unintended effect of creating a rebellion that is contagious. History has taught us...

  • Cinema in Focus - THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON - 2 Stars

    November 24th, 200906:49 PM ET
    By Denny Wayman
    Denny Wayman and Hal Conklin Based on the four-book series by Stephenie Meyer, this is the second book made into film with a third on the way. The books as a series won the 2009 Kids Choice Award and have sold over 85 million copies. However, this literary success does not translate well into cinema. Directed by Chris Weitz (The Golden Compa...

  • Self as the Standard of Spiritual Truth, Love as the Ultimate Idol: Old Problems Arise in NEW MOON

    November 22nd, 200903:18 PM ET
    By Marc Newman
    I have a confession to make. I am not a tweenage girl. And some of them will take immediate offense that I am criticizing what many of them consider "the greatest love story of all time." I know this because I was at the Thursday midnight screening of The Twilight Saga: New Moon and I saw it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears. With ever...

  • Living Faith Out Loud: Capturing Authentic Christians on Film in THE BLIND SIDE

    November 20th, 200904:09 PM ET
    By Marc Newman
    Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy told me that they did not have script approval, and therefore had no control over how they were portrayed on screen in The Blind Side. The film is the story of how the Tuohys brought a troubled, homeless black teen, who could barely read, into their family. They gave him a bed, food, and love, and watched him mature into a...

  • Get Connected In 20 Minutes A Week – We Need Reminders

    November 20th, 200901:39 PM ET
    By Family Values Cinema
    By Timothy Smith www.ParentsCoach.org 1. Main Point: Families remind each other of the good things about each other and about God. 2. Materials Needed: A ball of yarn. 3. Warm Up: Ask - "Describe a time when you forgot something?" (Hear 2 or 3 examples.) Say: "It is easy to forget. As families, we can help each other remember important things....

  • Putting Real Christians on the Screen: An Interview with THE BLIND SIDE director John Lee Hancock

    November 17th, 200912:07 PM ET
    By Marc Newman
    The Blind Side is the real-life story of the Tuohys - a white Christian family, living in Memphis, who put feet to their faith and take in a homeless African-American teen who was lost in the system. That teen was to Michael Oher - who is now in his rookie year with the Baltimore Ravens. Director and screenwriter John Lee Hancock talked with me rec...

  • Get Connected In 20 Minutes A Week - Why Families?

    November 16th, 200903:31 PM ET
    By Family Values Cinema
    Timothy Smith | www.ParentsCoach.org A weekly family activity adapted from: 52 Family Time Ideas by Timothy Smith Draw Closer To Your Kids as You Draw Your Kids Closer to God (Bethany House Publishers) 1. MAIN POINT: God placed us in families to learn about Him, life and love. 2. MATERIALS NEEDED: Socks, bowls and string. 3. WARM UP: Ask:...

  • Cinema in Focus - 2012 - 3 Stars

    November 16th, 200902:47 PM ET
    By Denny Wayman
    Denny Wayman and Hal Conklin The claim has been made that the Mayan calendar ends on 12/21/2012. This is not true. It is true, however, that this date marks what the Mayan calendar calls the "Great Cycle" and a new cycle will begin at that time. Because of this, people have imagined a climactic change will occur on that date that will be apo...

  • Cinema in Focus - THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS - 2 Stars

    November 13th, 200901:57 PM ET
    By Denny Wayman
    Denny Wayman and Hal Conklin What would the Cold War have been like if the late Timothy Leary, the LSD-induced guru of the ‘60's, had been in charge of training the U.S. Army? This absurd comedy takes us through every stereotypical "New Age" event that epitomized life in California 25 years ago and suggests that the Army looked at the ...

  • Cinema in Focus - THIS IS IT! - 3 Stars

    November 04th, 200907:58 PM ET
    By Denny Wayman
    Denny Wayman and Hal Conklin Michael Jackson's personal life has been controversial. But there is no doubt that his creative genius has impacted those not only in the United States but throughout the world as well. So when he came out of his self-imposed exile after ten years, the world was ready to hear from him again. Titling his tour "Thi...
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Reviews, discussions, articles, and opinions on films and faith.
Contributors
  • Cinema In Focus is a social and spiritual movie commentary. Hal Conklin is former mayor of Santa Barbara and Denny Wayman leads the Santa Barbara Free Methodist Church.
  • Dr. Marc T. Newman, president of MovieMinistry.com, helps Christians use film to reach others with the Gospel. He also teaches in the School of Communication and the Arts at Regent University.