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“God is dead” – Paul; “Paul is dead” – Box Office

March 21st, 201102:06 PM ET

By Marc Newman

What is it with British filmmakers and attacking God? Eighteen months ago, Ricky Gervais took an interesting premise in The Invention of Lying – he creates a world where people compulsively tell the truth -- and uses it to ridicule the Christian faith. The "theology" (and I use the word loosely) that Gervais brings to the screen could be de...
Kick-A** and The Perfect Game: How Kids Are Portrayed in Film Says A Lot About Our Culture

April 16th, 201002:00 PM ET

By Marc Newman

The 1957 Little League World Series team from Monterrey, Mexico is facing another David and Goliath story this weekend. This time it doesn't happen on a baseball diamond, but at the box office. The Perfect Game is based on the true story of a poor Mexican Little League team's improbable road to baseball immortality. How will these boys f...
New on DVD -- Letters to God – Christians Should Vote with their Wallets

April 06th, 201004:37 PM ET

By Marc Newman

This 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 ...
War and Redemption Reign at the Academy Awards

March 08th, 201010:29 AM ET

By Marc Newman

James 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 ET

By Marc Newman

Once 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...
FROST/NIXON - 3 Stars

January 22nd, 200912:44 PM ET

By Denny Wayman

Only one President in U.S. history has ever resigned. This occurred on August 9, 1974 when Richard Nixon, with no admission of guilt and an immediate pardon by the next President, defiantly raised his arms in victory and left the White House. This lack of closure or accountability set the stage for a taped interview by David Frost (Michael Sheen) o...