Which Film Contains More Make Believe – ‘Kinsey’ or ‘Finding Neverland’?

Last updated on: August 23, 2012 at 3:03 pm By Jeffrey Overstreet

Here’s this week’s edition of Film Forum, with more than you need to know about this week’s new releases. Read more

Tom Hanks will star in The DaVinci Code

Last updated on: August 23, 2012 at 3:00 pm By Jeffrey Overstreet

Looks like this decent piece of commercial fiction, full of historical innaccuracies and gross misrepresentations of Christ and Christian history, is going to be in the news for a long time to come. (more…) Read more

U2 in The New York Times

Last updated on: August 23, 2012 at 2:59 pm By Jeffrey Overstreet

U2 wins raves in The New York Times today, and look great in the photo that accompanies the article. (That photo’s sure a lot more interesting than the album cover, which is the most unremarkable in the band’s history.) (more…) Read more

Phillip Pullman Calls American Christians “the Mirror Image of Islamic Fundamentalists”

Last updated on: August 23, 2012 at 2:58 pm By Jeffrey Overstreet

I consistently get emails from readers of Phillip Pullman’s The Golden Compass, angry that I would dare criticize such a fine author. They argue that I’m exaggerating the anti-Christianity theme of the books. They seem to think Pullman is a man of staggering intellectual powers. Well, he does have an impressive imagination. And The Golden Compass showed he has a way with words. But it also led to sequels that exposed a blatant agenda of ridiculing and slandering Christianity as... Read more

Mojo on U2’s Atomic Bomb

Last updated on: August 23, 2012 at 2:55 pm By Jeffrey Overstreet

from Mojo: In defiance of the burdensome weight of their own history and the lifespan of the average rock band, U2 in 2004 are rock’s only remaining superpower. Other long-lived bands continue to impress, but none come even close to matching U2’s astonishing global commercial dominance in the rock field. Of the 12 tracks here (the UK and Japanese releases have an additional track, Fast Cars) over half are instant U2 classics and the remainder are never less than very... Read more

Finding Neverland and Kinsey – Guest Review by J. Robert Parks

Last updated on: August 23, 2012 at 2:51 pm By Jeffrey Overstreet

This guest review was contributed by J. Robert Parks. – It would be hard to find two more culturally distinct figures than J.M. Barrie and Alfred Kinsey. One was a Victorian, English dandy, the other was a 20th-century, Midwestern pragmatist. One was a playwright, the other a scientist and professor. One lived in the realm of the magical, the other in the laboratory of cold, somewhat hard facts. And while both were writers, Barrie is most famous for the enduringly... Read more

What the world needs now … from Michael Moore and the rest of us

Last updated on: August 23, 2012 at 3:28 pm By Jeffrey Overstreet

Hooray for David Poland for saying what so desperately needs to be said, over there at The Hot Button. I resonate with his words about divisive behavior on both sides of the political fence, about Michael Moore, and about a need for more respect from each side for the other. I’m really sorry I missed this episode of the Bill Maher show now that I hear about THIS happening… I have been in a bit of a death match with... Read more

A Scene That’s Not in the Re-make of Alfie

Last updated on: August 23, 2012 at 1:41 pm By Jeffrey Overstreet

From James Bowman, quoted in Amy Wellborn’s blog, here’s a reminder of a scene in the original Alfie that somehow didn’t end up in the new re-make of Alfie. Maybe it’ll show up on the DVD as a “deleted scene.” We can hope… (more…) Read more

The Polar Express (2004)

Last updated on: August 23, 2012 at 2:46 pm By Jeffrey Overstreet

This review was originally published at Christianity Today. – It the beginning of a Seattle screening of The Polar Express, when the locomotive of the title arrived in cacophonous glory, it frightened a girl—probably four years old—near the front of the theatre. She launched from her seat and fled up the aisle, her flustered mother following along. That dazzling train must have been quite a shock for the little tyke, who was probably accustomed to watching cartoons on the family television.... Read more

Barbara Nicolosi on Civility, Despite Our Differences

Last updated on: August 23, 2012 at 1:45 pm By Jeffrey Overstreet

But she does say this… (more…) Read more