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Are Christian Movies Getting Better?
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Tomorrowland
Tomorrowland has a simple message: stop being so negative. Yes, there are broader critiques of everything from a disaster-obsessed media to government regulation to dystopic science-fiction but this one message never gets lost. This is due in equal parts to a series of on-the-nose speeches and eye-popping utopic imagery seen during the film’s most breathtaking…
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Calvary and the Christian Cinema Crisis
Last week, after a Good Friday service, I watched a Christian movie. Every good movie contains truth, but some go even further and explicitly proclaim the way of Jesus. I call these “Christian” movies. Unfortunately, most of them are terrible. This one wasn’t. This one was Calvary. Calvary tells the story of a village priest…
