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4 Actors You Didn’t Know Were Pastors’ Kids
J. Michael Finley (pictured above) J. Michael Finley gained recognition for his first on-screen role as Bart Millard, playing the lead singer of the band MercyMe in the faith-based movie I Can Only Imagine. Finley was raised in Missouri. where his father. Wayne Finley, was a Baptist minister. In a recent interview with Movieguide®, Finley …
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How Social Media Impacts Teen Suicide
New evidence suggests there’s a link between teenage suicide and social media use. From 2007 through 2015, suicide rates doubled among teenage girls, reaching a 40-year high. Among teenage boys, they rose by 30 percent. At the same time, social media use has exploded. For example, the Pew Research Center found 90 percent of people …
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Where’s the Christian Message in Tyler Perry’s ‘The Single Moms Club’?
The Single Moms Club is a Tyler Perry movie about the lives of five single mothers who bond together. The film has mediocre acting but some nice elements, though it doesn’t have the strong Christian elements Perry included in his earlier movies. Jan (Wendi McLendon-Covey) is a successful businesswoman who’s also decided to raise a …
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Disney, Please Stop Bowing to Gay Agenda
The July 20 issue of TV Guide announced the Disney Channel’s plans to feature a lesbian couple on a 2014 episode of their children’s sitcom, Good Luck Charlie. The article calls the episode “groundbreaking” and refers to Disney as “testing the water” with content that many Americans would label as immoral. We strongly encourage Disney to …
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How Does Steve Jobs Movie Handle Apple Founder’s Buddhism?
Jobs is a biographical movie based on the life of technological icon and founder of Apple Computers Steve Jobs. Spanning from 1971 to 2001, with Ashton Kutcher playing the title role, Jobs tries to show the passion and motivation behind the complex innovator. In the 1970s, Jobs, a college dropout, is trying to figure out …
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Review: Learning to Establish Lifelong Friendships in ‘Monsters University’
Two of our favorite characters, Mike and Sulley, return to the big screen, this time to go to school, in the new animated family comedy from Pixar and Disney, Monsters University. Monsters University has a lot of heart with a strong moral worldview, though some monsters may be scary for very young children. Mike has always wanted to …
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Mark Burnett, Roma Downey Discuss Epic New Miniseries, ‘The Bible’
Evy Baehr, of Movieguide TV, talks to Mark Burnett and Roma Downey about their new television miniseries The Bible, which premiered Sunday on the History Channel. Find out more about The Bible and what the couple hopes to accomplish with the series.
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‘Cloud Atlas’: A Fuzzy Nightmare
Based on an acclaimed novel, Cloud Atlas takes place over 500 years. The group of characters from the 19th century turn out to be the same characters at several points in the 20th century and then in the future. Thus, characters, who are in love in 1849 and 1973, shift bodies and fall in love …
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Vengeful Cop Hunts Down Psychopath in ‘Alex Cross’
Alex Cross is an adaptation of the popular novel series written by best-selling novelist James Patterson. In it, Alex Cross (played by Tyler Perry) is a young homicide detective for the Detroit Police Department with a skill of hyper-observance. Because of his skill set, the FBI wants him and his family to move to Washington, …
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‘Here Comes the Boom’: Booming Sacrifice
Here Comes the Boom is a highly entertaining movie about a rundown school raising money to save the music department. Here Comes the Boom, rated PG, has a lot of heart and a lot of laughter with a Christian worldview of sacrifice, Scripture and prayer, but it does have some fighting violence. Kevin James plays …
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‘Hotel Transylvania’: Monsters Can Be Funny
In a world where humans fear monsters and zombies, enterprising vampire Count Dracula (Adam Sandler) builds a secret castle getaway for monsters from all over the world to relax and have a screaming-good time. Dracula has invited his monster friends to the hotel for daughter Mavis’ (Selena Gomez) 118th birthday bash. Jonathan, a human (Andy …
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‘Total Recall’: Non-Stop Action, Not Much Depth
Total Recall is a refashioned remake of the 1990 movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The new version is a dystopian vision of a world where most of the world is uninhabitable due to chemical warfare so that only the United Federation of Britain and the Colony, formerly known as Australia, remain. Somehow, the workers in The …
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D’Souza’s Documentary Explores History of Obama’s Roots
2016: Obama’s America is a documentary made by Ivy League Dartmouth graduate and conservative Christian pundit Dinesh D’Souza. It explores the historical and political background of President Barack Obama. D’Souza is known as a Christian apologist, conservative pundit and scholar. The documentary is based on his books Obama’s America and The Roots of Obama’s Rage. …
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