R.I.P. Don LaFontaine

R.I.P. Don LaFontaine You may not know the name, but you know his voice. Today we mourn the loss of the man who, for decades, has been the voice of movie trailers. Don LaFontaine died yesterday in Los Angeles. He was 68.

The Faith of Barack Obama

Bill Reichart reviews the book by Steven Mansfield.

7 Reasons Why the "Clone Wars" Will Be Worth Seeing

7 Reasons Why the “Clone Wars” Will Be Worth Seeing I wasn’t immediately interested in this..but now I am after reading this story I am excited to go see it!

View the "Religulous" movie trailer

View the “Religulous” movie trailer What are your thoughts?

Wednesday is the New Friday

Wednesday is the New Friday. Because the battle for box-office supremacy is so fierce, movies are increasingly being released on Wednesday as opposed to Friday, allowing for an additional two days to count in a film’s opening “weekend.” That includes both of this week’s big openers, Pineapple Express and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.

Cormac McCarthy's The Road Movie

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road Movie The Road is an amazing, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that contains McCarthy’s most direct treatment of love (between a father and son–and by extension, between God (Father) and sons). At the same time, it’s a post-apocalypse story that’s bleak enough in book form to chill you.  Now the first production photos [...]

Steven Curtis Chapman speaks to Larry King

Steven Curtis Chapman speaks to Larry King The Chapman family speaks about their pain, tragedy, hope and healing after the death of their daughter Maria Sue.

Brideshead Eviscerated

Brideshead Eviscerated A profoundly Catholic novel, in this “adaptation”, Brideshead Revisited is viciously anti-Catholic. They turned a movie about God and the soul, into a lurid love triangle between a homosexual, his sister and a hapless hunk. It’s lame. It’s bad.

Gandalf the Grey – Tolkien's Apostolic Archetype

Gandalf the Grey – Tolkien’s Apostolic Archetype As I’ve been studying the nature of apostolic ministry I continue to be struck by the similarities between Gandalf’s role (and the role of the 5 wizards) and the developing biblical picture I’m getting regarding God’s apostles.

Kick'n Video Games, Old School

Bill Reichart takes a time out from the E3′s onslaught of new games to discuss a film about one of the golden oldies.