Movies & TV

Big Idea Responds to CT Article
Phil Vischer, CEO and founder, issues a statement regarding company's financial status
Garden-Variety Heroes Delight Critics
Veggie Tales scores with religious and mainstream media alike. What critics are saying about Hell House and Red Dragon. Plus: Why Christian moviegoers should discover Ingmar Bergman.
Anger Management, Eternal Life, and Gun Possession
Critics scratch their heads over Punch-drunk Love, contemplate Tuck Everlasting, applaud Bowling for Columbine, and rant over White Oleander. Plus: Reviews of 12 more recent movies.
The Title Speaks for Itself
Religious press critics look at Jackass: The Movie, Auto Focus, Ghost Ship, The Truth About Charlie, Time Changer, Bowling for Columbine, Punch-Drunk Love, Hell House, and the upcoming Frida.
Critics Toast a Wedding
Critics respond to My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The Believer, feardotcom, Undisputed, Mostly Martha, Little Secrets, and One Hour Photo. Plus, readers make suggestions for future Jesus movies, and a new development in the DGA/Clean Flicks clash
Sin or Swim
Critics consider the teen thriller Swimfan and the broken family dynamics of City by the Sea. Plus: Further responses to My Big Fat Greek Wedding and some comment on The Devil's Playground
Haircut Chats and Harvard Brats
What Christian critics are saying about Barbershop, Stealing Harvard, One Hour Photo, Swimfan, and City by the Sea. Plus news on future films about Christians: Hell House and Saved
The R-Rated Film That We're Not Supposed to Call Christian
What Christian and mainstream critics are saying about To End All Wars, Spirited Away, The Banger Sisters, The Four Feathers, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, Barbershop, Secretary and One Hour Photo. Meanwhile, the MovieMask story continues
Sweet Home Stereotypes
What religious and mainstream critics are saying about The Magdalene Sisters, Sweet Home Alabama, The Tuxedo, Igby Goes Down, Trapped, 8 Women, and The Four Feathers
(The Voice of) Larry the Cucumber Speaks
Nobody thinks growing up that they're going to be a cucumber.
The Serious Business of Silly Songs
The director of music for the VeggieTales talks about bringing musical depth to the score
Signs of Faith on the Big Screen
How Christian and mainstream critics rate Signs, Full Frontal, The Master of Disguise, Who Is Cletis Tout?, Runteldat, and Never Again
Family-Friendly Fare from Fancied Fathers of Filth
Readers respond to challenging Disney, and critics respond to Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, XXX, Blood Work, Happy Times, The Good Girl, Read My Lips, and more on Full Frontal
Is a Clean Movie Unrealistic?
Christian film reviewers look at Little Secrets, Simone, One Hour Photo, and Serving Sara, and readers debate movie-editing software.
Light Sabers and Self-Sacrifice
Two recent films—a blockbuster and an unknown—show two ways of confronting evil
Gangster Rap
Road to Perdition has viewers discussing Greek tragedies and mob movies. Plus: What critics are saying about Reign of Fire and The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
Soviet Good Guys
What critics are saying about K-19:The Widowmaker, Stuart Little 2 and Eight Legged Freaks. Also: More comment on Men in Black 2, Road to Perdition, Reign of Fire, and Halloween: Resurrection.
Bawdy Blockbuster
What critics are saying about Austin Powers, Country Bears, Signs, Lovely and Amazing, Tadpole, The Kid Stays in the Picture, and more reviews of K-19: The Widowmaker and Sunshine State
Signs
A Hindu director who attended Christian schools tells a parable about a Christ-haunted ex-priest
Big Screen America
Critics' and readers' favorite movies for Independence Day, plus a review roundup for Mr. Deeds, Hey Arnold! and Men in Black 2.

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Christian Duty in a Spiral Toward Unrest
Christian Duty in a Spiral Toward Unrest
Political violence looms large in our national history, to our shame. It does not have to define our future.

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