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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:

Maysoon Zayid wants Dean Obeidallah to run for U.S. president–it’s a personal campaign for her. And if he were to run, he’d have my vote. And if not president, I’d nominate him for hottest (as in funny!) comic out there. Just listen to his bit on what Arab Americans get in lieu of a special…

Several years ago, I contributed a piece about the best small-screen mothers on American television to Beliefnet blogger Therese Borchard’s delightful book “I Love Being a Mom.” For the book, I tried to think of characters, who not only set the bar for television motherhood, but also TV moms who accurately reflected the times. So…

Newsweek reports this week that Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama share more than a wish to see him be president: Oprah attended Obama’s church when she first moved to Chicago, and both called the troublesome Rev. Jeremiah Wright their pastor. The difference is Oprah got out while the getting was good.
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