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Brett McCracken Interviews the Director of "The Road"

Christianity Today has posted Brett McCracken's interview with John Hillcoat about directing The Road. Here's an interesting excerpt: John Hillcoat: Yes, that's right. Cormac is very intrigued by grace under pressure and a higher spiritual element than man. He's also interested in

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Further Thanks to Christianity Today for a Generous Send-Off

Today's unexpected notes from the team at Christianity Today have been a tremendous blessing to me at the end of a trying week. I am deeply grateful. And thanks to those of you who left comments for me there as well. All I ever did was ramble on,

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An Enemy of Serious Film Criticism?

Here's Brett McCracken on Movieguide's ongoing campaigns of preposterous "film criticism." Earlier, Mark Moring's post at CT... in which the comments became lively, especially when Movieguide's Tom Snyder showed up to call Moring's post "a silly article&

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McCracken on "Fireproof"

Brett McCracken has seen Fireproof, and he writes: Turns out Fireproof was watchable (certainly moreso than its predecessor, Facing the Giants, which I couldn't watch with a straight face), though by no means was it good. I didn't laugh as much during Fireproof as I did

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Conversations with Critics About Favorite Films of 2006

It was the year of the endangered baby. Tsotsi, L'Enfant, The Nativity Story, Pan's Labyrinth,Children of Men... all of these films were focused on either infants or unborn children who are carried through terrible danger. But that was a subset of films characterized by a