Two Handed Warriors

Lent is a time for beauty by Dr. Catherine Hart Weber, PhD Beauty will heal and save you. That’s the hope and message woven into the 40 days of Lent leading up to Easter. God’s balance of beauty through love, goodness and redemption are His divine antidote to vandalization and brokenness in and around us. [...]

A significant new study led by  Dartmouth Medical School professor James Sargent discovered a significant relationship between movie moving and teen alcohol abuse. Published in BMJ Open, the prestigious open research journal of the British Medical Association, the two-year cohort study surveyed 6522 US adolescents, aged 10–14 over a two-year period. As one would expect, hanging out with friends [...]

. Here’s Looking At You, Kid Casablanca — MOVIECLIPS.com .. . Casablanca, 1942 Academy Award-winner for Best Picture (originally entitled, Everyone Meets at Rick’s), provides a clear example of how character (both cinematic and moral) is “constructed” from the ground up. Our unexamined presuppositions about reality form a worldview that guides our life in ways [...]

 By Marc Parry When it comes to which movies deserve an Oscar this Sunday, are fans and the official voters divided? The public would have picked Avatar over The Hurt Locker in 2010, some say. But this is “The Age of Big Data,” as The New York Times put it recently. Which means computers can help settle this film-buff debate, courtesy of a new [...]

Tonight, Hollywood will crown this year’s greatest film. But will anyone remember it in 20 years? Part IV in the series: Deep Culture Impact: Is an Oscar a Reliable Indicator of a Truly Great Film? by Gary David Stratton, PhD All-Time ‘Deep Culture’ Impact Films and 2011 Deep Culture Best Picture Nearly two decades of using film [...]

Part III in series: Deep Culture Impact: Is an Oscar a Reliable Indicator of a Truly Great Film? by Gary David Stratton, PhD A century of motion picture production has generated a remarkably small cannon of films that have achieved true “deep culture” impact. (See, Films with ‘Deep Culture’ Impact.) Even if you know that [...]

Part II in series: Deep Culture Impact: Is an Oscar a Reliable Indicator of a Truly Great Film? The criteria used by Academy voters to decide their choice for “Best Picture” remains a complete mystery to the viewing public. Is it Story? Acting? Directing? Artistic merit? Political perspective? Personal taste? Who knows? No two years are the same, and [...]

by Gary David Stratton, PhD This Sunday night, tens of millions of viewers from nearly every nation on the earth will tune in for the coronation of Hollywood’s Best Picture of 2011.  Studios have spent millions of dollars in countless screeners, screenings, billboards, interviews, Variety Ads, Twitter campaigns, blog attacks, and countless party conversations, seeking [...]

  The Hallmark Movie Channel will broadcast the 20th Annual Movieguide Awards TONIGHT! Hosted by TVs Superman, Dean Cain, the program honors the year’s best family and mature audience movies. Appearances include Grammy-nominee Natalie Grant, actors Antonio Banderas, Jim Carrey, Billy Bob Thornton, Salma Hayek, Robert Duvall, Angela Lansbury, Kevin Sorbo, Corbin Bernsen, Miss America Teresa Scanlan, [...]

Roadside Attractions Makes Pre-SXSW Deal For ‘Blue Like Jazz’ By MIKE FLEMING Roadside Attractions has acquired U.S. rights to Blue Like Jazz, the Steve Taylor-directed film that will have its world premiere in the Narrative Spotlight section of SXSW on March 13. The film is based on the Donald Miller semi-autobiographical bestseller. It was adapted by the [...]