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Used to be, any main character who had a rough day had critics crying “Christ figure”: Billy Budd, Charlie Brown–Harry Potter, for the Lord’s sake! But Richard Corliss, writing in this week’s Time magazine, says that Aslan’s similarity to Christ is expertly hidden by Disney in their most recent installment of The Chronicles of Narnia:…

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I love “Dancing with the Stars”–it’s a fun, frothy show that always ends up surprising me with some genuinely inspiring and touching moments. This year, my sentimental favorite was Marlee Matlin–the deaf Oscar-winning actress was completely undaunted by the task of learning to move to music she couldn’t hear, and was phenomenal at it. However,…

It could be said without much debate that there is a significant number of Jews in Hollywood. However, a festival focusing on the theatrical depiction of the Jewish experience is relatively new to the area. The third annual Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival took place May 8-15 with the mission to build community awareness, appreciation…

The most anticipated movie of the summer hits theaters on Thursday. Get ready for Indy-mania by viewing this clip. And then when you’re done, try taking our quiz to see how much you know about spirituality in the Indy flicks.

After a season full of forgotten lyrics, horrible auditions, restarted songs, and more, “American Idol 7” is down to two contestants: David Cook and David Archuleta. Cook, 25, is a Missouri native who has played in rock bands and nailed covers of unusual song choices like Mariah Carey’s “Always Be My Baby.” Archuleta, 17, is…

Check out this “Simpsons” clip that shows how Homer evolved from a single cell organism into a couch potato.

Did you recognize the band whose song played at the end of “Prince Caspian“? If not, you can see the Caspian-centered music video Switchfoot put together for their song, “This Is Home,” With its catchy guitar sounds and thoughtful lyrics, there’s no doubt the song will be just as popular as other Switchfoot favorites, “Dare…

While I agree with critics and fellow IC blogger Paul that “Prince Caspian” was an entertaining film that is better production-wise that its cinematic predecessor, “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe,” and that certainly not all of the spirituality of the Lewis novel was lost, something was definitely missing from this latest Narnian adaptation.…

Here at Idol Chatter we often have to dig around through the pop culture items we cover to come up with a relevant religious, spiritual or ethical angle for our readers. It’s often a challenge! Case in point, I watched a movie that opened last Friday in Los Angeles (and opened a couple of weeks…
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