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Jamie Lynn’s been under the radar as her belly’s been expanding with the promise of new life, staying out of the eye of stalkerazzi, so we don’t have to be subjected to photos of her scarfing down Arby’s. But according to PerezHilton, the imminently maternal Spears did emerge from deep cover to attend church on…

Laila Lalami, a novelist and literary blogger, has a review of the new indie film “The Visitor” in The Nation that serves as a mini-compendium of Muslim film, and how Hollywood has represented Islam since 9/11.

This summer’s upcoming reboot of the “X-Files” franchise after more than six years of living in a Mulder and Scully-less world, rebirth of the “Star Wars” franchise in the form of a computer-animated feature film and television series, and retirement of “Battlestar Galactica,” as it (hopefully) finally finds Earth, got us thinking about the great…

In addition to the typical big-name high profile movie fare that usually debuts at the Cannes Film Festival, Sean Penn, this year’s Cannes Jury President, has handpicked an unlikely documentary to also make its debut this week. “The Third Wave” a film by Australian-born director Alison Thompson was created out of footage Thompson and other…

For all you “Twilight” series fans (whether or not you prefer Edward or Jacob), if you haven’t seen it already, the first trailer for the movie from MTV films just released this week. Check it out here. As Time Magazine recently dubbed Meyer the world’s next J.K. Rowling (see fellow Idol Chatter blogger Paul O’Donnell’s…

Check out our hot off the press list of Reality TV’s most memorable Christians. Do you agree with our selections? Disagree? Think we’re totally crazy? Leave your comments below. We want to know what you think!

Today, the documentary “Surfwise” releases, a film about a family with nine children, all-raised in a 24 foot camper, hippie-commune-style, parked along the best California surfing beaches. In the New York Times review, “A Family That Surfs To a Beat: Its Own,” reviewer Manohla Dargis makes the movie sound worth seeing. Perhaps most interesting of…

For me, it’s always been hard to picture the divine. Yeah, in Jewish tradition, there’s the story of Jacob wrestling hand-to-hand with a purported angel in the Book of Genesis. And, in Islam, the angel Gabriel visits Mohammed on more than one occasion, flying with him to Jerusalem, discussing life with him, and delivering the…

In a movie, whenever there’s a song associated with Israel or Jews, it’s automatically “Hava Nagila,” and I’m here to tell you it’s enough already. (It’s also enough with the Manischewitz jokes, but we’ll get to that at some future point…) Israel is a center of technology and medical breakthroughs, among other contributions to world…

From this Sunday’s (May 11th, 2008) episode, “Stand Up: Muslim-American Comics Come of Age,” part of the “America at a Crossroads” series on PBS:
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