{"id":4612,"date":"2006-02-14T09:56:56","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T09:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/be-positive.html"},"modified":"2006-02-14T09:56:56","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T09:56:56","slug":"be-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/be-positive.html","title":{"rendered":"Be positive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeffrey Overstreet of Looking Closer is on the anti-DVC train, for sure, but wants us to remember something quite important: There’s good stuff out there. Let’s spend at least as much time promoting quality films as we do critiquing the dreck. A case in point: Sophie Scholl: The Final Days<\/a>, about which Jeffrey has a couple of lengthy posts:<\/p>\n

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My review will be posted at Christianity Today<\/em> and I’ll be writing about it for SPU’s Response<\/em> as well.<\/p>\n

Further, let me say that Christians should spread the word that this is a must-see. It’s as important a film about faith as anything since The Passion of the Christ<\/strong><\/em>. Fortunately, it’s also very well made.<\/p>\n

I’m predicting that 2006 is going to be twice as good a film year as 2005. It’s only mid-January, and I’ve already seen THREE films that will probably have prominence in a year-end Top Twenty list – A New World, Tsotsi<\/strong><\/em>, and now Sophie Scholl: The Final Days<\/strong><\/em>. Must-sees, every one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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