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The Weinsteins Get Into the “Contemporary Christian Cinema” Game
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Kris Rasmussen
Only two months after 20th Century Fox announced plans to aggressively target the Christian market with a new FoxFaith label, the Weinstein Company–whose predecessor, Miramax, produced such edgy fare as “Fargo”–has announced that they will also create a faith-based movie label. The Weinstein Company is not, at this time anyway, creating their own faith-themed entertainment,…
“Apocalypto”: Mel Chooses Carnage Over Creativity
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Kris Rasmussen
One man is chosen as a sacrifice to suffer unbelievable torture to save others. That’s one way to sum up Mel Gibson’s work in “Braveheart,” “The Passion,” and now Gibson’s latest effort, the Mayan action-adventure film “Apocalypto.” “Apocalypto”–which follows a young warrior, Jaguar Paw, through the dangerous Mexican jungles as he saves his family and…
Mel Gibson’s Book of Revelation
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mkress
Mel Gibson’s “Apocalypto” is a story about pagan Mayan Indians who offer ghastly human sacrifice to their gods, hunt tapirs to bloody deaths, and fill their leisure hours playing bawdy practical jokes on each other. It is also a deeply Christian movie, as devotional in its own way as “The Passion of the Christ,” and…
‘Apocalypto’: Blame It on the Jews
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mkress
A funny (if somewhat low-blow) fake movie trailer from SNL explains what those Mayans are really saying:
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