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For Funnyman Michael Jr., Comedy is Serious Business

Owen Wildman — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

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.

Looking for God on The Road

Jay Swartzendruber — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

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.

Believers Walk the Talk in The Blind Side

Jay Swartzendruber — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

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?

Stage "Prairie" Lacks the Depth of Previous Incarnations

Mark Steele — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:31:00 GMT

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.

What the Church Can Learn from Sesame Street

Russell Moore — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:30:00 GMT

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?

Apocalyptic "Road" Winds to a Hopeful Place

Christian Hamaker — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:02:00 GMT

The movie version of Cormac McCarthy's The Road is a story of a father and son trying to survive after an apocalyptic event. Although God is discussed, he is never embraced, yet The Road shows the importance of the power of hope to overcome bitterness and cynicism.

"Old Dogs" Could've Used a Few New Tricks

Christa Banister — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:01:00 GMT

Old Dogs could've used a few new tricks, namely a stronger, less-schmaltzy script, a more convincing friendship between protagonists played by John Travolta and Robin Williams, and well, a few more laughs that don't involve bodily functions.

Action and Heartbreak, Not Romance, the Focal Point of "New Moon"

Christa Banister — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:03:00 GMT

With a strikingly different tone than it's swoony, spooky counterpart Twilight, New Moon actually answers the age-old question that most romantic comedy scripts never have the opportunity to: What happens after the girl actually lands the man—or in this case, vampire—of her dreams?

"The Blind Side" Shows Faith in Action

Christian Hamaker — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:02:00 GMT

After burnishing her star power with the summer hit The Proposal, Sandra Bullock embodies Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side and, in the process, creates one of the year’s more memorable characters. And she’s no fictional creation.

So-So "Planet 51" Gets a Boost from Much Better Movies

Christa Banister — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:01:00 GMT

While recycling old ideas was basically status quo, surprisingly enough, borrowing from other otherworldly space-age flicks including Stars Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. and Alien actually elevates Planet 51’s overall enjoyment factor.

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The Manchurian Candidate

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Raymond Shaw: There are two kinds of people in this world … those that enter a room and turn the television set on, and those that enter a room and turn the television set off.

The Manchurian Candidate
1962

Wag the Dog

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:58:00 GMT

Stanley Motss: What did television ever do to you?

Winifred Ames: It destroyed the electoral process.

Wag the Dog
1997

Singles

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:32:00 GMT

David: Tonight, I'll be the super me.

Steve: What if the super you meets the super her and the super her rejects the super you?

David: Then it's no problem.

Steve: Uh-huh. Why?

David: Because it was never you; it was just an act. I live my life like a French movie, Steve.

Singles
1992

Beauty and the Beast

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:00:00 GMT

Beast: I want to do something for her ... but what?

Cogsworth: Well, there's the usual things. Flowers ... chocolates ... promises you don't intend to keep. ...

Beauty and the Beast
1991

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:23:00 GMT

Jefferson Smith: Boys forget what their country means by just reading “The Land of the Free” in history books. Then they get to be men. They forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say, “I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will.”
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939

For Funnyman Michael Jr., Comedy is Serious Business

Owen Wildman — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:04:00 GMT

Angels & Demons Is Not the Movie You Think

Stephen McGarvey — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:03:00 GMT

On film, Angels & Demons is rewritten to follow the events of The Da Vinci Code. And so Christians are perhaps not unjustified in expecting this prequel/sequel to deal with our faith in a heavy-handed fashion. But it does not.

Crude Humor Drags Down Funny People

Christian Hamaker — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:02:00 GMT

Funny People, the latest Judd Apatow shock comedy, doesn’t have enough of a positive message to overcome its stream of bawdy stand-up comedy and profanity-laced script. Additionally, the film’s excessive length only magnifies its negative elements.

Family Dysfunction Takes Center Stage in Four Christmases

Christa Banister — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:01:00 GMT

Four Christmases seems to have all the right ingredients to be fun, ‘tis-the-season escapist entertainment. Yet for all the effort the protagonists make to be likeable and the carefully-staged gags, the movie still falls horribly flat.

Shorts Packs Several Tall Tales into One

Christa Banister — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

While its charms may be fewer for anyone over the age of 10, Shorts is an eccentric, time-jumping adventure that merges comedy, sci-fi and a short treatise on the dangers of too much technology into one mostly family-friendly movie.

Stage "Prairie" Lacks the Depth of Previous Incarnations

Mark Steele — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:31:00 GMT

NBC Goes Back to the Bible with "Kings"

Rebecca Cusey — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:31:00 GMT

It’s the stuff Hollywood is made of. And now Hollywood has returned to the biblical story of David to create a TV show called Kings. Set in the modern kingdom of Gilboa, the two-hour pilot airs on March 15 at 8:00 P.M. (ET) on NBC.

Chaos Multiplies in Second Season of "Jon & Kate Plus 8"

Laura MacCorkle — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Who isn’t fascinated by the world of multiples? Thank goodness Discovery Health Channel’s Jon & Kate Plus 8 is back, with six-year-old twin daughters Cara and Mady and the busy sextuplets who are celebrating their third birthdays.

Critics' Choice: Top Movies of 2006

Staff — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT

Any assessment of art will contain a certain degree of subjectivity, and a Top 10 list of the year’s best movies is no exception. What were we looking for in a movie? Does it confirm a Christian worldview or attack it? And then, of course, from an aesthetic perspective, is the film entertaining? Would we recommend it to our friends?

Child Actor Dominic Scott Kay Shines in "Charlotte's Web"

Annabelle Robertson — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:23:49 GMT

A sports enthusiast, a music fan, an animal lover, child actor Dominic Scott Kay is many things. But what he is, first and foremost, is a Christian. I chatted with him recently about dogs, cats, fish and guinea pigs ... and what it was like to work with Julia Roberts in "Charlotte's Web."

OYB November 25

Julie Ferwerda — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:46:00 GMT

Why did Nebuchadnezzar search for Jews to serve in his courts? Learn interesting historical facts about the Babylonian and Persian Empires. And just who were the "spirits" that Jesus proclaimed to in prison? Were they the same ones He subjected after His resurrection? Find out...

Home for the Holidays... and Every Other Day

Jim Liebelt — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:51:00 GMT

The recession has brought many young adults back home.

In A Hospital Waiting Room

John Shore — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:44:00 GMT

In a waiting room, waiting.

NOBODY PANIC!!!

John Shore — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:39:00 GMT

The morning of my wife's operation.

A Conversation on Church Discipline

Russell Moore — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT

Greg Wills, a Baptist historian and expert on church discipline, talked with me about letting a church member undergoing church discipline "resign" from membership just prior to excommunication. Listen to this “Moore to the Point Micropoint” and let me know what you think.