Christians in Cinema BLOG

One of the first films I saw in a theater was a horror film. “Friday the 13th” (part 85, or something like that.) Prior to that, my movie-going had been limited to “Ghandi” and “The Competition.” I was a baby movie-phile.
This was a birthday gift from a friend (what a gift!), and it was horrifying! […]

I’ve had a running conversation with a friend of mine about an interesting question: Why do people react more strongly to crude language in a film than to violence?
I went to see “Definitely, Maybe” this week. No violence there, but the language was objectionable. It wasn’t crude language, in fact, just the opposite. It was […]

I grew up in Texas, where the ranches are big and beef is what’s for dinner. Branding meant stamping a hot firebrand onto the hindquarters of an animal to identify it as one of yours. Each rancher developed a unique brand that made his cattle stand out from others, and when herds got mixed, […]

Writer/Producer/Director/Lead - “The Theory of Everything“

David de Vos’ film credits read like something out of a science fiction novel, with an occasional drift into reality TV and theme-park shows. Fresh from a stint teaching at YWAM’s University of the Nations on the Big Island of Hawaii, we talked as he headed home at the end of a busy day.

Legendary rock band U2 explodes in theaters this weekend with their cutting-edge, state-of-the-art technology and effects 3-D extravaganza. Titled simply “U2 3D,” the 80-minute film is a concert experience that takes viewers on an extraordinary cinematic journey. Praised as a “quantum leap” beyond traditional concert films, it could be the front edge of a new […]

Just got word from Brian Bird (writer/producer of Touched by An Angel series) that he and his production partner Michael Landon, Jr. (Love Comes Softly series) have a couple of features in development. The duo that brought us The Last Sin Eater and Saving Sarah Cain start production on February 27th in Canada.
The greatest football […]

At last week’s meeting of the Biola Studio Task Force, writer/director Lauralee Farrer asked:
Where do we get the idea we’re supposed to make money with our art? If we don’t are we not going to do our art?
The question was asked during a discussion about her newest film, a documentary entitled The Fair Trade. Lauralee […]

Check your local theaters for a new movie Valentine’s Day weekend from Dave Christiano. Titled Me & You, Us, Forever, it’s based in part on Dave’s own story of love found and love lost.
Attending a film opening weekend is like voting in the presidential primary (which I did today!).
It was a case of deja vu […]

Lots of crazy things are happening because of the writers’ strike. Things like: an awards show where no one actually receives the award; they just have their name mentioned. Production companies are backing away from the “company line” of the studios and making their own deals with writers. (David Letterman’s WorldWide Pants) New “reality” shows […]