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‘Conclave’: Is it anti-Catholic propaganda or an Oscar-worthy film?

Posted on 18/02/2025 by John Sandeman
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Warning: This article contains spoilers. Joseph Holmes via Religion Unplugged (ANALYSIS) Quite a lot of Oscar-nominated movies this year seem to be embroiled in controversy — from “The Brutalist” and its use of AI to the “Emilia Pérez” star’s old… Continue Reading →

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The Adam project

Posted on 30/01/2025 by Charles Brammall
jennifer garner

Charles Brammall on a movie that explains the Bible’s two Adams, and how actress Jennifer Garner came back to God Paul the apostle’s letter to the church in Rome, chapter 5 verses 12-19: “Therefore, just as sin entered the world… Continue Reading →

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Why the period drama film ‘The Brutalist’ resonated so deeply with me

Posted on 12/01/2025 by John Sandeman
The Brutalist

Daniel Libeskind, the architect of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, reviews The Brutalist, for The Forward, New York via Religion Unplugged (OPINION) It is seldom that one enters a film that resonates with one’s own life. For me, “The Brutalist”… Continue Reading →

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‘The Chosen’ and ‘Am I Racist’ now typify success for Faith-Based Movies

Posted on 29/09/2024 by John Sandeman
Jonathan Roumie stars as Jesus in "The Chosen" Season 4.

There’s a shift in the US church, as young women are less likely to go to church, and young men are more likely to attend. that shift and US politics are driving US Christian culture, and the movies that arrive… Continue Reading →

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‘Sound of Freedom’ story gets murkier

Posted on 14/10/2023 by John Sandeman
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Sound of Freedom, a blockbuster Christian movie with some awkward facts attached to it, is in further trouble as the man the story is based on, Tim Ballard of Operation Underground Railroad (OUR) the child rescue organisation, faces serious accusations.… Continue Reading →

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Awkward facts about ‘Sound of Freedom’ movie

Posted on 08/09/2023 by John Sandeman
Sound of freedom promo

Lauded as the latest Christian blockbuster movie, Sound Of Freedom was claimed to be the number two movie in Australia last weekend by some enthusiastic supporters. After who wouldn’t want to see an action-packed Christian movie based on a true… Continue Reading →

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A story worth telling to a new generation: The Hiding Place on the big screen

Posted on 10/08/2023 by John Sandeman
The Hiding Place

“The Hiding Place” is a Christian classic. Most boomer Christians grew up with the strangest of all things, a story of hope amidst the human disaster of the Holocaust. During World War II, Corrie Ten Boom and her family risked… Continue Reading →

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How ‘Barbie’ Shows Greta Gerwig Is The Wrong Choice To Direct ‘Narnia’

Posted on 01/08/2023 by Religion Unplugged
Barbie

By Joseph Holmes / Religion Unplugged Many people are excited by the news that Greta Gerwig will be directing the first two “Narnia” movies for Netflix, but a look at her filmography shows she is the wrong choice to direct those… Continue Reading →

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Why movies make me happy to be brought up a quasi fundamentalist

Posted on 10/01/2023 by John Sandeman

An Obadiah Slope column. Obadiah grew up suspicious of culture. We were not a big movie-going family, for example. And television only crept into the household after an older brother bought his own TV. Until then, it was half an… Continue Reading →

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