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In the upcoming movie “Henry Poole is Here,” a bitter, disaffected man named Henry (played by “Old School” star Luke Wilson) gets a new chance at life when pilgrims begin flocking to his home to see an outline of Jesus’ face on the side of Henry’s house. embedVideo(1619484272);

“Wanted” is a an intriguing mash-up of “Office Space,” “Fight Club,” “The DaVinci Code,” and “The Matrix.” You could be forgiven for thinking that this Angelina Jolie vehicle was simply another sex appeal-fueled shoot-’em-up loosely based on another graphic novel (Mark Millar’s “Wanted” series). It’s ad campaign certainly suggests so and the film itself is…

Most of us will be cooking out and watching fireworks this Fourth of July, but just in case your festivities get rained out or you’re looking for something for the family to watch together, here are some of my favorite movies that celebrate our Independence Day and the quest for the American Dream. [I am…

It’s pretty much inevitable that sometime this summer you’ll hear Katy Perry’s hit single “I Kissed a Girl” blaring out of someone’s car, or in a dance club, or in a department store, if you haven’t already. And, if you aren’t looking for any kind of spiritual enlightenment and just want to hear a cool…

Bishop and popular author N.T. Wright recently stopped by “The Colbert Report” to debate the afterlife, once again proving no one does late-night religion better than Colbert. Here’s how the discussion went:

I have been pretty much MIA at the cineplex this summer. There just hasn’t been much that has made me feel I absolutely had to give up my beach time to go to the theater. But I am rushing to the theaters today to see a movie that holds great promise– “WALL-E.”. The story of…

After reading the New York Times’ excellent review of ABC Family’s newest quirky, squeaky-clean series, “The Middleman,” by Susan Stewart–it’s basically an ode–I quickly DVR’d the pilot I missed from last week and set up the cable to catch epsiode two. Well, heck! It was such a good decision! Title character Matt Keeslar who plays…

Watch the trailer for the new animated movie, “Wall-e” about the last robot on Earth whose job it is to clean up all the trash humans have left behind. The film hits theaters today. embedVideo(1631227929);

Parvez Sharma, an Indian-American documentary filmmaker, is gay and Muslim. Sharma’s feature length documentary, “A Jihad for Love,” which opened in New York last month, is a brave and a powerful film exploring how some Muslim gay men and lesbian women around the world reconcile their sexuality and faith despite threats of persecution. It is…

James Patterson. Nora Roberts. Paulo Coelho. Stephanie Meyer. All names I would expect to find on the New York Times best-sellers list. But the current publishing buzz surrounds the number one soft-cover fiction book in the country right now– a book with the inauspicious title of “The Shack.” The book was originally a self-published effort…
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