I re-upped on the old HBO in prep for Game of Thrones next week and one of the first things I watched was a new doc from them called Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. It’s, no surprise … Continue reading
Exodus: Gods and Kings is a dreary retelling of the Exodus bible story that only picks up when we start getting our Plagues of Egypt on. This movie has a pacing and story building problem. It opens with the barest … Continue reading
(Kirk Cameron’s) Saving Christmas is possibly the weirdest movie I’ve seen in a very long time. The trailer suggests its a defense of Christmas from those horrible people who want to take the Christ out of Christmas (the old ‘War … Continue reading
Also took a chance and went to see God’s Not Dead – a religious film that they didn’t bother to advertise to me but is near the top of the box office for the past three weeks. Unlike many “Christian” … Continue reading
When to see Noah, the biblical disaster movie about a homicidal, genocidal guy who builds an ark with the help of Transformers, defends it from an evil army of evil evil guys, and then gets depressed and hammered. Transformers? Yes, … Continue reading
Saw two musically themed movies today, by coincidence, and they couldn’t have been more different. The first was something I went into blindly – no idea what it was. Grace Unplugged is a Christian-themed movie about the daughter of a … Continue reading
Went blind to an indie flick named A Strange Brand of Happy that’s playing in a bunch of local theaters (never seen a trailer, no idea what it’s about other than it’s a comedy). Well, it turns out that it’s … Continue reading