Life is precious, and the world is a hostile place. These two truths are taken to new – and sometimes shocking – extremes in “Children of Men” and “Apocalypto”. One film is set in the near future, and the other in the distant past, but both films are essentially chase movies set against the backdrop […]
Deliver Us from Evil: the tragedy of lost faith
Amy Berg scored quite a coup for her first documentary film. In Deliver Us from Evil, which covers one aspect of the child-abuse scandal currently rocking the Catholic church in the U.S, she gets a startlingly candid interview from Oliver O’Grady – a former priest, now living in Ireland, who abused numerous children while stationed […]
The Da Vinci Code: a slanderous bore which takes itself too seriously
Due to BCCN‘s publishing schedule, I am writing this column after I have had a chance to see The Da Vinci Code, but before the film has opened in regular theatres. So on the one hand, I can safely say that the movie is a dud, a complete bore, and that most film critics, secular […]
Brokeback Mountain, Oscar Favorite, is not necessarily pro-gay
The Academy is in a political mood this year. The front-runner for the Best Picture Oscar is Brokeback Mountain, the so-called ‘gay cowboy’ movie; however, some pundits have speculated that the trophy might go to Crash, a contrived and wildly overrated ensemble piece about racism in Los Angeles, when the awards are handed out. Meanwhile, […]
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is about four children who discover a magical country while staying in a professor’s house, far from their home, during World War II. They enter this country, called Narnia, through a secret portal in the back of a giant closet. And once they get there, they discover that […]
Elizabethtown
It isn’t every woman who gets to see a pivotal moment from her life interpreted for all the world to see by an Oscar-winning actress. It’s an even rarer woman who gets to see two Oscar-winning actresses re-enact such episodes from her life. But as anyone who has seen Almost Famous or Elizabethtown might have […]
Can a Christian make horror movies?
Can A Christian make horror movies? Scott Derrickson thinks so. As a screenwriter, he has worked on quite a few films in the genre, including Urban Legends: Final Cut, Dracula 2000 and Hellraiser: Inferno, the last of which he also directed. His newest film as co-writer and director, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, looks at […]
Batman Begins
Batman begins is easily the best of the summer blockbusters so far, and quite possibly the best movie ever made about the Dark Knight. It is certainly the first live-action film to take the title character and his roots seriously. In 1989, a lot of people went ga-ga for the first of Tim Burton’s films […]
The Gospel of John
So much hoopla over The Passion of the Christ, we forgot to say anything about the video release of The Gospel of John, a word-for-word adaptation that had its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September and very slowly made its way west, finally coming to Vancouver theatres just one week before Easter. Of […]
Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher
Lonnie Frisbee was a young hippie seeker fully immersed in the 1960s counter culture when he claimed to have experienced an encounter with God while on an acid trip. This event so transformed him that Lonnie became an itinerant Christian evangelist, something of a John the Baptist of Southern California who compelled thousands of fellow spiritual seekers to make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ. During the 1970s Lonnie Frisbee became widely known as California’s “hippie preacher,” the quintessential “Jesus freak” whose pictures frequented such magazines as Time and Life as the media told the story of a burgeoning “Jesus movement.” Lonnie Frisbee provided the charismatic spark that launched the Calvary Chapel church into a worldwide ministry and propelled many fledgling leaders into some of the most powerful movers and shakers of the evangelical movement…
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