2 Feb
The Visitor.
Watch. This. Movie.
We did on Friday night at our weekly “homemade pizza and a movie” night, and we loved it. So many great themes:
compelling look at the life of two “illegal” aliens living and working in our country
beautiful portrayal of a marriage bound by love
awesome story of transformation when the couple’s lives crash into [...]
10 Oct
First off, I review Bill Maher’s comedy, Religulous, over at the Jesus Manifesto zine. Check them (the review and the movie) out if you get a chance. On a related note, it’s interesting that apparently, folks associated with the film’s production created a fake Christian rock band to call for a fake Christian boycott of [...]
20 Jan
Has anyone else caught the Planet Earth series, either on BBC or the Discovery Channel? (I think it’s currently airing on the DC every Sunday night at 8 pm EST) We’re working our way through the 14-part series on DVD (from the library), and after watching the first two installments, I have to echo [...]
9 Jul
Had a good weekend. Busy, but good.
Dad beat me to the post, but we saw SiCKO, Michael Moore’s documentary on the ills of the American healthcare system, on Friday night. To be honest, I was floored. It wasn’t typical inflammatory Michael Moore … he simply let the stories of those affected negatively by [...]
26 Apr
We finally got around to watching Jesus Camp tonight. It took a while for it to be our turn on the library queue … apparently this is quite the popular DVD. If you didn’t catch the buzz when it was in the theaters, here’s the description from Magnolia Pictures:
A growing number of Evangelical [...]
16 Feb
It turns out that kids in brothels and Amish communities make great subjects for documentary films.
Untold millions of children in the world are born to sex workers. Tens of thousands of children in America are born to Amish families, who purposefully segment themselves off from the outside world to lead lives of radical simplicity [...]
6 Feb
Peter and Paul and the Christian Revolution (PBS, 2002) — Did a better job than most Bible documentaries â&emdash; or Bible teachers, for that matter â&emdash; at establishing the social and political setting into which the Christian story was cast. I was convicted once again at just how counter-cultural the gospel was then â&emdash; [...]
30 Dec
When Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ was released in 2004, it was met with glee by Christians of all stripes. This, many thought, is the movie that will draw the masses to Jesus and fill up American churches once again. Churches, Christian schools, and well-to-do individuals bought up entire theaters’-worth of tickets to [...]
16 Dec
Last week I discovered that in Boston, people can queue up library materials online, and they’ll be delivered to the branch of your choice within a few days. In a city like Boston, the public library system contains just about any DVD one could want, creating a veritable “poor man’s Netflix.” Well, I [...]
30 Sep
We’re now under occupation.
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There are two documentaries coming out soon that paint “Christianity” in a less-than-favorable tone. There’s Jesus Camp, which tells the story of one summer camp where kids as young as 6 are being enlisted to fight against the popular culture in “God’s Army.” It’s hard to explain why this makes me feel [...]
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