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“Game” stands tall + a director to watch + Edward James Olmos and Grant Goodeve back in the TV saddle
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Touchdown! Coming on the heels of last weekend’s excellent The Giver, the quality winning streak of faith-themed films continues with When the Game Stand Tall (opening tomorrow, 8/22). Both films — while totally different in genre and tone — are remarkable and noteworthy examples…
“Gimme Shelter”, “Alone Yet Not Alone” face stiff industry/media hurdles + A talk with Kathy DiFiore whose real-life work inspired “Gimme Shelter”
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Support Gimme Shelter. Between the Motion Picture Academy’s rescinding of its Best Song nomination for the Christian-themed Alone Yet Not Alone and some over-the top-negative reviews in the secular media of the gritty and powerful Gimme Shelter (now in its second weekend at theaters), it’s…
“Family Guy” criticized as immoral by cast member’s son; “Flag of My Father” debuts at GI Film Festival; Plus CBS pilots
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John W. Kennedy
Family Guy is hardly family programming. So says the Parent Television Council’s Barbara Warburton who goes further and declares “Shows like these are leading toward the destruction of morality… nothing seems sacred anymore.” Her comments are particularly interesting because her son (actor Patrick Warburton) voices paralyzed cop Joe Swanson, one of the characters on the…
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