Posts Tagged ‘“Noah”’
The Miracle Maker
I believe in the power of entertainment as a tool to evangelize an easily distracted world. A priest at one of our recent performances marveled at the size of the crowd for The Wedding at Cana. He said, “we’d never be able to pull 150 parishioners for a Bible study.”
And yet entertainment can, and does, teach. It can also distort our Christian faith, and that is where things get interesting…
Read MoreKilling Jesus
“It play with the idea that Jesus’ teachings are more important than the doing of miracles, that the idea behind what he’s saying is the point and it doesn’t need to have out-of-body, magical elements happening.”
Read MoreAnother perspective on Noah
People I respect hate Noah, the new Russell Crowe movie.
And people I respect like the film. The latest is Catholic Answer’s, Patrick Coffin. I have listened to Mr. Coffin on the radio for years and hold him in high regard. Here’s what he had to say about Noah on his Facebook page today …
Noah: "A bowel movement on celluloid"
The verdict is in: I won’t be seeing “Noah.”
I’ve done my homework. The majority of reviewers I respect have made a compelling case that “Noah” suffers from a fatal case of bad theology and lousy cinema.
Political commentator, Steve Deace, characterized it as a “bowel movement on celluloid” …
Is the new "Noah" movie worth seeing?
By Tom Quiner “The utter embarrassing mess of ‘Noah’ and why everybody is lying about it.” How’s that for the headline for a movie review on ‘Noah’ which opens today? Let me pass on excerpts from this review, written by Catholic screen writer and critic, Barbara Nicolosi: “Everything is politics. And nowhere is that more…
Read MoreThe upcoming battle of "Christian" films
When is a Christian film not a Christian film?
When it changes the Bible narrative upon which it is based.
Two upcoming films to be released in time for Lent take on a couple of epic biblical characters: Jesus and Noah. They are generating a very different buzz leading up to their premiers.