Movies

Alcon Entertainment | Starring Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Kathy Bates, Quinton Aaron | Rated PG-13 The Blind Side, starring Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw, is undeniably inspirational. But Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, the Christian couple at the center of the film, hope the story of how they adopted a homeless black teenager who eventually …

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The makers of the surprise hit Fireproof have produceda film about fatherhood as their follow-up to the top independent movie of 2008. Courageous released in 2011 to rave reviews from critics. Officials for Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga.—where Fireproof and their earlier films were created—made the announcement during a Sunday night church service, which …

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“It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.” When piano-bar musician Tony Delgatto (George Segal) croons those R.E.M. lyrics to a sloshed crowd in the new film 2012, he has no idea he’s performing the intro to a seismic disaster that’s about to take center stage on planet Earth. …

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Fox Searchlight | Starring Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Geoffrey Arend, Matthew Gray Gubler, Chloe Moretz | Rated PG-13

Tom Hansen is a boy. Summer Finn is a girl. The movie tagline says it all: Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl doesn't.

Many of us can relate. Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) believes in true love and thinks he's found it in Summer (Zooey Deschanel). But her past has left her jaded, and she is put off by his expected relational declaring and defining. She wants nothing to do with a so-called committed relationship and has all but abandoned the idea of traditional marriage. Still, she acts in a way that's heard of more often among guys (not all, I know) involved in these "nonrelationships": They say they're only friends and don't want commitment, but their actions indicate the opposite.

20th Century Fox | Starring Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Amy Adams | Rated PG | Opens May 22 I love movies. And I really like it when a movie turns out even better than I anticipate. When I sat down in 2006 to watch The Night at the Museum, I thought I would …

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“I dare you to do better.” When a young, pre-captain James Kirk hears this plea from a decorated Starfleet officer in the new J.J. Abrams revamp of Star Trek, something triggers, prompting him to give up a soulless existence and step into his destiny.   Moviegoers already familiar with the mythology of the legendary captain …

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New Line Cinema | Starring Matthew Perry, Zac Afron, Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon, Michelle Trachtenberg, Sterling Knight, Melora Hardin | Rated PG-13 A little bit Back to the Future, a little bit 13 Going on 30 and you get 17 Again—or at least it looks that way. In high school, Mike O’Donnell (Matthew Perry) was …

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Actress Dyan Cannon’s Christian meetings on a CBS backlot just might be the best show in Tinseltown. And her testimony is changing attitudes in a community known for its hostility to the gospel. The plot seems farfetched: A movie star leaves drugs and religious experimentation to embrace Christ and begins hosting Benny Hinn-style healing meetings …

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The new movie leaves viewers with lots of questions How do you describe both a beginning and an end? That’s the suspenseful question viewers are asked at the beginning of Left Behind: The Movie, the apocalyptic prophecy movie by Christian filmmakers Peter and Paul LaLonde. This bit of narration is supposed to set the stage …

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When an offbeat suspense thriller called Left Behind hit bookstore shelves in 1995, no one could have predicted its astonishing success. The Christian novel, published by Tyndale House, jumped from obscurity to notoriety with alarming speed, hitting No. 9 on The New York Times Best-seller List and earning a top 10 spot on Barnes & …

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