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For Funnyman Michael Jr., Comedy is Serious Business
Michael Jr. does what few others can—be featured on The Tonight Show one night and then take his stand-up routine to a church the next. Wherever he steps up to the microphone, audiences agree Michael Jr. knows what it takes to keep it clean while keeping the crowd in stitches.
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Looking for God on The Road
The Road, author Cormac McCarthy’s next book to hit the big screen this month, was inspired by his relationship with his young son John, born when McCarthy was 65. The result is a stunning love story between a father and his son set against the most horrific backdrop imaginable.
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Believers Walk the Talk in The Blind Side
Will The Blind Side become the next Rudy? With the highly anticipated film hitting theaters November 20, mainstream media outlets are asking some good questions, but they may be overlooking the most significant one of all: Could this movie help change the way we view homeless children and how we approach adoption and foster care?
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Stage "Prairie" Lacks the Depth of Previous Incarnations
This week, I joined 2,000 others in witnessing the newest variation on this century old story: Little House on the Prairie, The Musical. An Ingalls tale without Michael Landon. A history book without a soul. This time, there were very few tears.
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What the Church Can Learn from Sesame Street
What would happen if our churches were to recognize our role in showing people the future, not just in our teaching and in our going but in our being?
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2012: Anxiously Awaiting Doomsday
Until relatively recently, we, like the psalmist, knew where are our help came from, and wouldn’t fear even if the mountains fell into the sea.
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Holy Land Pilgrimage Goes Extreme in The Road Less Traveled
Filmmaker and archaeologist Brandon Trones hopes his extreme pilgrimage and the tangible effects of fasting he experienced become a life-changing lesson for viewers of The Road Less Traveled: Hunger for the Holy Land.
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What Not to Watch
"Recently, myself and some people close to me have been wondering what the Bible says about what is OK to watch or read as entertainment..."
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Douglas Beaumont: Can Anything Good Come from Hollywood?
When it comes to Hollywood’s latest offerings, most of us fight an inner battle between ethics and entertainment. Douglas M. Beaumont addresses this very issue in his new book, The Message Behind the Movie (Moody Press).
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Art and Mission Collide in ChristianCinema.com Co-Founder's Work
"My goal is to make films that inspire and move the spirit," says filmmaker and ChristianCinema.com founder Kevin Downes. Two of his films, Six: The Mark Unleashed and Mercy Streets, have just released on DVD.
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Wish Fulfillment Gets a Foodie Twist in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
A multi-layered story was developed to help bring the concept in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs to life. And much like something the Pixar folks dream up, there’s plenty of thoughtful takeaway in this talk of wish fulfillment gone seriously awry.
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Hope Is Found in Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself
With I Can Do Bad All By Myself, director Tyler Perry hopes that audiences will leave with a message of hope in the story of a nightclub singer named April, a couple of young delinquents, a handsome Mexican immigrant and of course, the reoccurring character Madea.
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Deconstructing Mad Men: TV's Best Gender-Driven Drama
Since it’s beginning, AMC's heralded Mad Men series has provoked thought about gender issues of the early '60s, but has unpacked them in insightful and challenging ways. As viewers, we observe how relevant it all still is for us today.
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Four for the Fourth: Movies That Celebrate America!
Looking for movies that honor America and the spirit of its citizens? These four films trace a journey from the country’s foundation and the immigrant impulse to come to these shores, to their assimilation and the heights of their service as U.S. citizens.
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Jim Caviezel Eschews Feel-Good Fare in The Stoning of Soraya M.
It's summer, but Jim Caviezel thinks now is actually the perfect time to shake things up at a theater near you with The Stoning of Soraya M.—a disturbing, heart-wrenching film that's the polar opposite of feel-good entertainment.
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