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November 2009

• Drew Barrymore, Welcome to the Fight Club!
• 'Fireproof' Filmmakers Announce Next Movie
• 'Your lies and tactics are odious to me'
• Disney Housecleaning Continues
• 'Hollywood picking on us Christians'
• Megachurches Get a Movie!
• LOTR Producer to Make Biopic on Muhammad
• Looking for Laughs? Look No Further
• 'Wings of Desire' Hits Criterion Collection

October 2009

• Things that caught my eye this week…
• One for the iPod
• Law & Order Takes On TV's "Most Persistent Taboo"
• Lessons from the Cinema: How NOT to Preach
• Forgive Someone Who Murdered Your Family?
• Wanna Be a Movie Producer? Now You Can!
• 'Letters to God' Gets a Date, Distributor
• Heartland Gives Big 'Welcome' Gift
• OMG!
• 'Love Boat' Captain Finds Reel Love
• 'The Ten Commandments' to be remade as "300"?!
• Beware the Hair!
• 'The Great Divorce' to Get Movie Treatment
• Family-friendly horror movies?
• Things That Caught My Eye This Week

September 2009

• Terrible Yellow Eyes!
• Creation gets an American distributor after all.
• Now He's REALLY Informed!
• Darwin Film: Not Showing in a Theater Near You?
• Ben-Hur's Roots in . . . Indiana??
• Fallen Angel Finds a Home
• Saved! + Helter Skelter + South Park=Leslie
• World Films and the Buzz About Town
• Ends of the World (as We Know It)
• Brilliant Star; Drab Gray
• Places--and Horrors--in the Heart
• Ebert Reviews Christianity
• The Invention of Lying, take two.
• A Puzzling 'Face' and a Non-Story Nun Story
• Things That Caught My Eye This Week
• Toronto International Film Festival: Day 1
• 'Bella' Actor in New Role . . . for 20 Minutes
• Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2009 Preview
• MPAA Change a Concern to Parents

August 2009

• The Invention of ... "blasphemy"?
• Rob Zombie to remake Christian movie!!
• A Few Films of Note
• 'Wickedly Entertaining'
• Dungy Kicks off HS Football . . . in Theaters!
• Group Wants to End MPAA Ratings
• Committed actor wrecks pastor's antique cabinet
• Newsbites: The religious women edition!
• Cliff Clavin, Hercules in Christian flick
• Dem Bones
• And the biggest cartoon of all time overseas is ...

July 2009

• Newsbites: The biblical spin-offs edition!
• Most Easily Offended by Movies: Mormons
• Newsbites: The children's literature edition!
• Yet another Darwin drama in the works!
• Sand dunes in three dimensions, please!
• Archangels with machine guns at the end of the world
• Nicky Cruz film update, and more
• The Top Faith-Offending Films
• Blue Like Effing Jazz?
• The Exorcist comes to Blu-Ray ... sort of.
• Darwin biopic to open Toronto film festival
• Expelled co-writer tackles Christian Zionism
• Can a New Breed of Indie Romcoms Save this Summer?
• Will the Real Bilbo Please Stand Up
• An Anti-Adoption Film?
• Stryper merchandise on the big screen!
• God, Gays, and 'Bruno'
• Facebook: The Movie
• Jimmy Stewart and God
• Christianity, Witchcraft, and the Movies
• Taking another look at Knowing
• Ctrl Z to become webisode series
• Karl Malden, 1912-2009
• 'Sources of Spiritual Power Are Not in the Cinema'
• God in a Rom-Com?
• Gives New Meaning to 'Family Film'

June 2009

• 'Stoning' Actress Gets It Wrong
• Shia Seeking Something?
• Stephen McEveety -- the "deleted quotes"
• Jesus, Spartacus, and Monty Python
• Go Ask Alice
• Fighting Robots Are Cool
• Read. And. Weep.
• Miley to Play the Teen Rebel Role
• Fresh, Rotten, and Everything in Between
• Genesis at the movies
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Inevitable Sequel
• Newsbites: The fantasy edition!
• Newsbites: The medieval edition!
• Peter Morgan to write Bond 23!
• Newsbites: The Pixar edition!
• Newsbites: The religious history edition!
• Halle Berry looking at a potential Surrogate
• Avid for Avatar
• Newsbites: The prequels edition!

May 2009

• Glass doors and the loneliness of Kirk
• Newsbites: The hiding-in-Canada edition!
• A Childhood Reimagined
• Paul Verhoeven to direct a Christian thriller?
• Nine does not always equal 9
• Another Post-Apocalypse Flick . . .
• 'Dogma,' 'Life of Brian': Best Movies for Christians!
• A Newt, a Pope, and a Doc
• How Sarah Connor made the war worse.
• Newsbites: The classic tales reimagined edition!
• Passion producer making 'religion-inflected' Rwanda movie
• Rating Woes
• Ben-Hur, Jesus, and water bottles
• Weisz to play Lamarr -- and maybe Delilah too?
• Star Trek -- at the box office, on the charts
• Newsbites: The ancient characters edition!
• Newsbites: The imaginary friends edition!
• Vatican Newspaper: 'Angels & Demons' Harmless
• Angels & Demons & Prelates, Oh My!
• Doug TenNapel + Hugh Jackman = Ghostopolis
• Year One -- the set-visit reports begin
• Movie Hatch--New Social Site for Filmmakers
• Newsbites: The Marvel Comics edition!
• Human vs. machine = spirit vs. body?

April 2009

• SpeedCine
• Tom Hanks: Pawn of Satan?
• Newsbites: The '80s live forever edition!
• WWJD: The Movie
• Odysseus without the odyssey?
• Yet another Nativity movie in the works.
• Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw to play real-life evangelical couple
• Newsbites: The biblical and religious edition!
• Slumdog's Young Star for Sale?
• Ron Howard Fights Back
• Newsbites: The fantasy edition!
• Michael J. Fox and The 700 Club.
• The subtleties of subtitles.
• Snippets: Saving Lives, Ice Castles, and More
• Newsbites: The medieval and historical edition!
• Newsbites: The Terminator edition!
• Film Premiere Hits Home
• Music and Moviemaking
• On a more personal note...
• Terminator odds and ends.
• Year One gets a PG-13 rating after all.
• Newsbites: The time travel edition!
• Newsbites: The war movie edition!
• Clash of the Schindler's List veterans!
• Newsbites: The quasi-biblical (or not) edition!
• Snippets: Baseball, Egypt, and More!
• Expression of the day: Manic Pixie Dream Girl.
• Herod the Great and his Cleopatra cameo.
• Newsbites: The reimagined characters edition!
• Gibson to Film 'Passion' Sequel
• Newsbites: The Star Trek edition!
• Newsbites: The demons and monsters edition!

March 2009

• Newsbites: The Greco-Roman edition!
• Where the Wild Things were.
• 'Blue Like Jazz' moving forward
• Maurice Jarre has died
• Newsbites: The biblical and infernal edition!
• "The year's best movie (so far)."
• Young, Gay, and Christian . . .
• Sean Penn is Such a Stooge. Literally.
• Wild Thing
• Christian films short on Christian substance
• Is 3-D the Wave of the Future?
• An improvement on guy flicks and chick flicks alike
• "All of this has happened before..."
• Newsbites: The historical and biblical edition!
• Another Church Movie
• C Me in the NYT
• Just What the Docter Ordered
• Perpetuating Black Stereotypes?
• Fearing the Reaper
• Dick Ross, 1918 - 2009
• A Real Chick Flick; 'Narnia Code'; and More
• Kings -- the interview's up!
• Newsbites: The sci-fi and fantasy edition!
• Newsbites: The comics and cartoons edition!
• Fanboys Fracas
• Proyas Revisits Dark City
• Gomorrah--A Necessary Antidote?
• Sodom (with or without Gomorrah) in Louisiana
• Newsbites: The sequels and remakes edition!
• Newsbites: The period-piece edition!
• Newsbites: The supernatural stories edition!
• I've Loved You For So Long
• Robert E. A. Lee, 1921 - 2009
• Imagining the deaths of people still living
• WALL•E + Watchmen = very, very funny
• Trek spoilers revealed
• A God Among Men
• How important is "accuracy" in a movie?
• Arrested Developing?
• Newsbites: The science-fiction edition!
• Star Trek and Terminator parallels
• Munyurangabo finally gets a theatrical release
• WGA Strike -- One Year Later
• Newsbites: The Hasbro toys and games edition!
• Newsbites: The comics and cartoons edition!
• The Lost Dawn Treader?

February 2009

• Kingdom Come -- this week's update
• True Nourishment from Nachos
• 'I Wish I Went with God's Plan 15 Years Ago'
• Shake Hands with the Devil comes to U.S.
• Voyage of the Dawn Treader gets a rewrite
• Kings makers discuss their series
• Newsbites: The reboots and remakes edition!
• Newsbites: The comics and superheroes edition!
• The Dude Abides . . . and Other News
• for Lent
• Newsbites: The people living in forests edition!
• Agora -- the teaser is now online
• Book Adaptations
• Finnish filmmakers and spiritual themes
• 'We're Going to Have Our Own Spielbergs'
• Oscar a Hit with Viewers
• Of Slumdogs and Beanies
• Exposing Sex Slavery
• Scorsese Plans Japanese Martyr Flick
• Something we missed.
• Congrats to 'Slumdog'!
• Slumdog the new Crash?
• Oh, I bet Mel loved that.
• Nixonian irony
• More statistical stuff
• And the Golden Hanger goes to...
• I Miss Tina Fey and Steve Martin
• 65-second stand-in for Peter Gabriel
• Whatever else happens ...
• why not a REAL actress?
• Worth a Smile
• And the Oscar for Best Film Editing goes to ...
• If You're Interested...
• "Outstounding"!
• The Roberto Benigni award for “wild European moment” ...
• Bill Maher's Appreciation
• The music playing over the documentary montage...
• "The musical is back"?
• It's great that a cinematographer is presenting an award...
• Stiller Visits Phoenix
• Roger Deakins should have won best cinematography...
• Aha, so this is how they're keeping the ceremony short!
• Thank goodness for Marley & Me.
• Best Costume Drama Award
• Does CGI Count as Make-Up?
• The first film to win two Oscars tonight is ...
• First decidedly needless moment of the night
• The Best Animated Short is ...
• Well, It's Something
• Best Line of the Night
• Are the Oscars really more out of touch than ever?
• Milk Screenwriter: God Loves You
• Self-Deprecation?
• Brangelina Snub Seacrest Again
• Cruz Control
• A deep thought for Oscar night
• Hugh's Song and Dance
• It's OK Hugh, I Didn't See The Reader Either
• Much Ado about Oscar
• Cute Kids Always Win
• Getting into the Spirit
• Black Tie = Black Hat?
• Supporting Actresses Make a Statement
• Live from the Red Carpet
• Religion Crashes the Oscar Party
• New Look Oscar?
• Kingdom Come not coming soon after all?
• 'Milk' and the problem of politics
• Newsbites: The comics and superheroes edition!
• Newsbites: The supernatural stories edition!
• Random thought of the day.
• Milk Will Take It All
• Americans Are Pro-Communist!
• Is Slumdog a Slam Dunk?
• Who are the greatest active directors?
• Will the original Sarah Connor "be back"?
• The Big Fisherman -- Disney's "lost" biblical epic
• Can Tyler Perry sell his movies overseas?
• WALL-E Gets 'Spiritual'
• Looking for Christ at the Oscars
• Where the Wild Things Are (online)
• Tom Joad's Ghost in New England?
• God and the Oscars
• The revisionist Robin Hood movie, revised
• Did We Miss the Religion of 'The Wrestler'?
• Perfect Completion (Man on Wire)
• Dr. Jeee-kyll
• Jane Austen movies get a little stranger
• Paul Newman's embarrassing Bible epic
• Friday the 13th and other low-budget hits
• Another Church, Another Movie
• Newsbites: The science-fiction edition!
• The newest Harry Potter movie poster
• Newsbites: The all-female edition!
• Where's Joaquin?
• Jacked Up
• Scandalous Preachers in Film
• A Pixar Tearjerker?
• The Biblical Origin of Movie Posters
• The Terminator goes to church
• 'I am Wiccan. It is my craft. It is my life.'
• No 'Doubt' About This Talent
• Jack Black Meets Cain & Abel
• Jesus Christ, Movie Star

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