Faith and Pop Culture Archives

Baz Luhrmann captures the opulent decor and backs it with a hip-hop soundtrack that should feel out of place but works surprisingly well.

Considering that To Be Loved is currently the #1 album on Billboard’s Top 200 list, there’s no question that Canadian crooner Michael Bublé’s...

Tom Cruise plays yet another action hero with panache, but the timing is awful for a film with so many gun-related fatalities early on.

While some comic book movies become lazy and predictable, genuine surprises and character development keep Iron Man 3 from growing stale.

Bob Gersztyn owned a fine collection of 300 rock 'n roll albums in 1971, the year he accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior.

It's anything but a typical romantic comedy. Silver Linings Playbook is more like that genre's slightly unhinged cousin.

As compelling as it has the potential to be, Promised Land is weighed down by a lack of subtlety and a heavy-handed agenda.

In a review in 2011, I wrote of I Am Empire’s debut release Kings that “for a band barely two years old, it promises much more good to come.”

The suffering young characters function as role models for building meaningful lives and making choices that let them sleep at night.

What makes 42, the story of Jackie Robinson, such an inspiring story?

There are three ways to read the seven Chronicles of Narnia, but only one of them is best.

It’s been four years since pop/rock band OneRepublic released a full-length studio project.

The casting and the idea to make a movie about FDR are inspired. That's where the inspiration ends for this gross miscalculation.

This animated coming-of-age story is aimed more at adolescents than young children, and packs a surprising, emotional wallop.

Just like she has with her previous award-winning science fiction and fantasy titles, author Jill Williamson spins another extraordinary tale...