Faith and Pop Culture Archives

With such a title, the bar is immediately set too high for what’s a fairly conventional good vs. evil battle with spectacular visuals.

When I heard the CW was producing a reality show based on Suzanne Collins' bestselling novel The Hunger Games, I couldn't help but roll my eyes.

It’s curious to think that just beyond the perfectly manicured lawns of the country’s most prestigious Ivy League schools, lies a thriving homeless...

Not bad, but not awesome, and definitely below Disney standards for quality. It's cute, funny, sweet, and forgettable.

Director Jeff Nichols effectively blends genres, numerous subplots and character dynamics – and does so with emotional weight and power.

So poorly executed that it's safe to say all comparisons between Percy Jackson and Harry Potter will come to a screeching halt.

Truth be told, I haven’t been a middle-schooler in a long, long time, but that hasn’t hampered my enjoyment of L.L. Samson’s “The Enchanted Attic”...

Lots of fighting and explosions punctuated by moderately clever dialogue. "Pretty much exactly what I want," my male friend told me.

Flawed, but it only takes one special element to set a film apart. Here, it's a loony performance from the great Jeff Bridges.

If this sci-fi/romance mash-up is representative of the current state of either genre, those genres are in big trouble.

An impossibly cute but decidedly conventional story about striving for the seemingly impossible dream.

A film so poorly plotted that it makes anything featuring Perry’s obnoxious Madea seem downright genius in comparison.

The last half-hour is exactly what we want a summer movie to be, but we have to sit through two hours of utter tedium to get there.

Is Despicable Me 2 (out on DVD Dec. 10) as fresh and amusing as the original? Crosswalk's Stephen McGarvey and Shawn McEvoy check in on the...

Crosswalk’s own Sully & Mike (a.k.a. Shawn McEvoy & Stephen McGarvey) compare notes on Pixar’s 14th film and first prequel, Monsters University...