My research into Contemporary Christian Cinema keeps turning up more and more films, many of which were straight to DVD releases. Here are my thoughts on the latest one I’ve watched.
Possibility Pictures is one of the more recent Christian film production studios to emerge in a Post-Sherwood Pictures world. Their first feature-length film, Letters to God, released in theaters earlier this year, and the DVD hit shelves earlier this month. I think it’s time to create a new genre: Christian Pornography.
A couple of days ago, I posted a review of Peter E. Dans’ book, Christians in the Movies: A Century of Saints and Sinners for Patheos’ Faith Forward blog. Dans traces a representational arc that reveals Hollywoods’ portrayal of Christians as gradually moving from sacred to the scandalous from the 1920s to the 2000s. Of [...]
Over the past couple of years, I have frequently written and spoken about the potential of Sherwood Pictures to be a influential model for the future of Christian filmmaking. This influence will come not only through their films, but in the ways in which other communities of faith their production strategies. The first church to [...]
Pop Theology contributor Richard Lindsay reviews Being Human, the BBC vampire/ghost/werewolf series import currently on its second season on BBCA.
Later this year, I’ll be presenting a paper on the ethical/theological/moral implications of video games. As luck would have it, a public discussion over whether or not video games qualify as art broke out in on-line and print media over the past few months. Film critic Roger Ebert oppossed this notion while arguments for it [...]
