By Dr. Charlie W. Starr Peter Jackson’s third Hobbit film has been in theaters for a month now, and people are making up their minds about whether or not the trilogy as a whole is any good. I’m going on record here to say these movies are bad . . . and good. Adaptations […]
By Dr. Charlie W. Starr For most of this yearI focused on positives in media. I did a series which included how video games, movies, and TV are getting more complex, more intellectual, and more interesting. And I spent the last two months talking about the rise of Christian film distribution in Hollywood, focusing on […]
By Dr. Charlie W. Starr Last time I told you that, earlier this year, Christian filmmaking crossed a milestone in that six Bible, Christian-themed, or Christian-made films had fairly wide releases. I told you about three of those movies last month: Son of God, God’s Not Dead, and Heaven Is for Real. Here we […]
By Dr. Charlie W. Starr I’ve talked before about how Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ woke up Hollywood to the fact that there are a lot of Christians in America, and they are willing to pay money for Christian-themed films. Since then, many Christian films have been made, but not many have […]
By Dr. Charlie W. Starr We’ve been doing a series on what’s good in mass media. In the last two articles I talked about smarter television. In this, the last piece of the series, let’s look at how film is also getting smarter. More Characters Film has increased in its complexity by giving […]
