~ Travis Stewart Moviefone recently posted this insightful article about David Fincher who has directed The Social Network(2010) and Fight Club(1999) - both of which have been described as films which "define our generation." What do you think? ~ by Gabrielle Dunn at Moviefone Even before its well-deserved win for Best Motion Picture -- Drama at the 2011 Golden Globes, 'The Social Network' was being hailed as the "movie that defines our generation." As loose a ...

A Film Unfinished 2010 Directed by Yael Hersonski ~ review by Craig Detweiler I recently had the privilege of hosting a screening of the quietly powerful documentary, A Film Unfinished. Four long forgotten film reels were discovered featuring footage shot by the Nazis circa 1942. Labeled “Das Ghetto,” the footage corrects long held assumptions about life in the Warsaw Ghetto. Much of what historians long considered accurate depictions of the era was actually ...

~Ron ReedSister Rose Pacatte writes for the National Catholic Reporter. In her recent article Seeds of the Gospel in Cinema she talks about cinema divina - a practice of watching film as a spiritual discipline, derived from lectio divina. She mentions Father Benedict Auer's article "Video Divina: A Benedictine Approach to Spiritual Viewing," in which he writes "Video divina requires a set disposition which says, 'This evening, I wish to get closer to God, so I think I'm going to watch this film, which might give me better insights into myself or why my neighbor acts as she or he ...

Inception 2010 • Rated PG-13 Directed by Christopher Nolan [SPOILER WARNING: Don't read unless you've seen the movie] Inception has been called "an elegantly cerebral story that is primal, compelling, and as visually disconcerting as it is completely captivating" as well as "a tremendously challenging and tremendously rewarding movie, the type that will have audiences talking -- and debating -- long after the credits roll." After seeing it again last night I'm in ...

Inception 2010 • Rated PG-13 Directed by Christopher Nolan "Avatar was one man's film pushing his vision of the world using amazing technology. Inception is a film exploring the human mind, guilt, regret, forgiveness and the power of beliefs through imagination and creativity. With Avatar I felt preached at; with Inception I felt invited to explore my core beliefs, how guilt drives my behavior and my perception of reality." That's what I wrote on my Facebook status ...

In the winter of 2001 I had a choice to make; either I take a one week class in New Testament Greek, continuing my work on a Master's of Divinity degree or switch degree programs and sign up for a class called Movies and Theology taught by Denis Haack. Considering that I didn't feel called to ordained ministry and having parsed my quota of Greek verbs I choose to learn the language of film over the language of the ancients (after all, I figured, I know a lot of guys I ...