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Movie review: Jeff Bridges’ “Crazy Heart”

( Movies and Music and Work )

My review of the great new Jeff Bridges film, Crazy Heart, which I wrote with a friend shortly after I saw the movie last month, was just posted on the Rabbit Room blog. Here are a couple excerpts:
I’d have to say, though, there was one thing I liked above everything else about the film, [...]

500 Days of Summer: A Story about Love

( Movies )

Free Music from Randall Goodgame

( Movies and Work )

Expelled: No Grays Allowed

Guillermo del Toro on metaphor and small decisions

( Movies )

Festival of Faith and Writing – Jeffrey Overstreet – “Through a Screen Darkly”

Movies, Hope, Language, and the Rabbit Room

For some reason, I have a hard time trying to explain my view on art to people who hold the same viewpoint I grew up with. It’s easy for me to get frustrated talking about art with someone who thinks Harry Potter is evil, or who doesn’t agree with Philippines 4:8 (“whatsoever things are true”) and wants all their movies to present a fake, sanitized view of life, to be like animated Thomas Kinkade paintings. So I’m glad when guys like Andrew Peterson, a friend that I’ve had this discussion with several times, take time to try to explain their views to others.

Two new favorites

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Film+Faith blog-a-thon

( Movies )

Why I Believe in God