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Subscribe to this bloggerDr. 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.
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New on DVD -- Letters to God – Christians Should Vote with their Wallets
April 06th, 201004:37 PM ETBy Marc NewmanThis Tuesday an amazing thing is going to happen. The kind of movie that evangelicals loudly claim to want is coming to a video outlet near you. Letters to God -- a film directed by one of the producers of Fireproof -- is a family drama about Tyler, a young boy who literally writes, and mails, letters to God. In the letters, Tyler speaks to ... -
Writing Romance, Tragedy, and Responding to the Gifting of God: An Interview with Nicholas Sparks
March 31st, 201001:20 AM ETBy Marc NewmanRomantic tragedy continues to be a strong draw at the bookstore and the box office. Nicholas Sparks, author of numerous best-sellers, including The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, Dear John, and his latest The Last Song, is one of the top writers in this genre. On a sunny afternoon in Santa Monica, Sparks and I sat down to talk about his first... -
Amish Grace – Sunday, March 28th on Lifetime Movie Network
March 25th, 201011:42 AM ETBy Marc NewmanIf a murderer walked into an elementary school and slaughtered five local girls and wounded five others, how would you respond? How do you forgive the unforgivable? <i>Amish Grace</i>, premiering Sunday, March 28th on the Lifetime Movie Network, dramatizes the true story of the unthinkable murders at an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mine... -
War and Redemption Reign at the Academy Awards
March 08th, 201010:29 AM ETBy Marc NewmanJames Cameron will have to console himself with the over $2.5 billion in worldwide box office receipts that his film, Avatar, has raked in over the past few months (and more coming in daily). When it came time to hand out the Oscars at the end of the seemingly-eternal Academy Awards ceremony, Cameron's neo-pagan/environmental vision was trounced in... -
MovieMinistry’s Films to Look For in 2010
January 15th, 201002:24 AM ETBy Marc NewmanOnce again, MovieMinistry rejects the backward-looking top ten lists. (Do you really need someone else's opinion to determine which ten films you thought were best?) Instead, we look ahead, to try to help you to identify the upcoming films that appear to have some ministry potential. So if you use film for outreach, or if you are trying to find som... -
Committed to Character in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
December 23rd, 200911:17 AM ETBy Marc Newman"If hardcore Star Trek fans are called Trekkers, I guess our fans would be called Munkers." Producer Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. was talking about the three generations of people who are devoted followers of furry little band members with high-pitched voices. Since their debut as a singing group in the 1950s, Alvin and the Chipmunks have starred in two... -
Self as the Standard of Spiritual Truth, Love as the Ultimate Idol: Old Problems Arise in NEW MOON
November 22nd, 200903:18 PM ETBy Marc NewmanI 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 ETBy Marc NewmanSean 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... -
Putting Real Christians on the Screen: An Interview with THE BLIND SIDE director John Lee Hancock
November 17th, 200912:07 PM ETBy Marc NewmanThe 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... -
God as a Convenient Falsehood in The Invention of Lying
October 08th, 200901:44 PM ETBy Marc NewmanNo one watching the trailers for Ricky Gervais' The Invention of Lying would have any idea that the film is largely a thinly-veiled attack on the truth claims of monotheistic religion - one that mirrors Gervais' personal beliefs (search YouTube for "Ricky Gervais religion" to view his musings). Instead, the unsuspecting moviegoer might think that i...
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