Kick-A** and The Perfect Game: How Kids Are Portrayed in Film Says A Lot About Our Culture

The 1957 Little League World Series team from Monterrey, Mexico is facing another David and Goliath story this weekend. This time it doesn’t happen on a baseball diamond, but at the box office. The Perfect Game is based on the… Read More

Letters to God – Christians Should Vote with their Wallets

This Friday an amazing thing is going to happen. The kind of movie that [Christians] loudly claim to want is coming to a theater near you. Letters to God — a film directed by one of the producers of Fireproof… Read More

Romance, Tragedy, and Responding to the Gifting of God: An Interview with Nicholas Sparks

Romantic tragedy continues to be a strong draw at the bookstore and the box office. Nicholas Sparks, author of numerous best-sellers, including The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, Dear John, and his latest The Last Song, is one of the… Read More

War and Redemption Reign at the Academy Awards

James Cameron will have to console himself with the over $2.5 billion in worldwide box office receipts that his film, Avatar, has raked in over the past few months (and more coming in daily). When it came time to hand… Read More

MovieMinistry’s Films to Look For in 2010

Once again, MovieMinistry rejects the backward-looking top ten lists. (Do you really need someone else’s opinion to determine which ten films you thought were best?) Instead, we look ahead, to try to help you to identify the upcoming films that… Read More

Committed to Character in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

"If hardcore Star Trek fans are called Trekkers, I guess our fans would be called Munkers." Producer Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. was talking about the three generations of people who are devoted followers of furry little band members with high-pitched voices.… Read More

New Moon: Self as the Standard of Spiritual Truth, Love as the Ultimate Idol

I have a confession to make. I am not a tweenage girl. And some of them will take immediate offense that I am criticizing what many of them consider “the greatest love story of all time.” I know this because… Read More

Living Faith Out Loud: Capturing Authentic Christians on Film in The Blind Side

Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy told me that they did not have script approval, and therefore had no control over how they were portrayed on screen in The Blind Side. The film is the story of how the Tuohys brought… Read More

God as a Convenient Falsehood in The Invention of Lying

No one watching the trailers for Ricky Gervais’ The Invention of Lying would have any idea that the film is largely a thinly-veiled attack on the truth claims of monotheistic religion — one that mirrors Gervais’ personal beliefs (search YouTube… Read More

Telling Half the Story in The Informant!

Hollywood likes to traffic in the seedy. Redemption stories only seem to appear when “redemption” means pulling oneself up by one’s bootstraps. Studios have had a couple of great chances to talk about real redemption through biographies lately, but they… Read More

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