Ted Baehr - Jeffrey Overstreet

Wait... how did I end up in The New Yorker?

I've just been informed that Sam Sweet at The New Yorker has published a piece about "The Christian Oscars." I play a supporting role — not in the "Christian Oscars" (thank goodness) but in the article. I'm as surprised about this development as

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Movieguide: Bringing so-called "movie reviews" with so-called "high biblical standards" to FOX News

Here's the breaking news about Movieguide... And here's a link to my recent post that should be more than sufficient in explaining why this is awful news. It's bad enough that "Christian" and "Biblical standards" will now be even more

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Ongoing Lies and Distortions from Movieguide

Exposing the latest exhibition of the ignorance that pollutes so much of the material published at Movieguide, Steven Greydanus published this article about The Rite and Movieguide's review of it. Interesting timing. The misguided work of Movieguide has been brought to my attention a lot lately. Just a

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Reader Mail: Ballast! Ghost Town! Ted Baehr!

BEHOLD... BALLAST!Ballast is an excellent film, and I want to thank you for putting it onto my radar.By the way, I've started reading Auralia's Colors and I'm really enjoying it so far. I'm trying to get caught up quickly to

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Film Forum: Tropic Thunder, Transsiberian, Star Wars - The Clone Wars

This is collection of reviews that I found interesting and helpful. The collection will be revised as I find more notable assessments online. Feel free to submit more reviews, or even your own, in the comments below. TROPIC THUNDER Anthony Lane - New Yorker: Tropic ThunderTropic Thunderflailing and unfocussedThe PlayerHearts of

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What Does Movieguide Really Want?

At Christ and Pop Culture, Movieguide reportedly has "the last word." Here's what they want: We support a return to the Moral Code of Decency and the vetting of all scripts for movies going to public theater and DVD retail within 20 years, if not in

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Is There Will Be Blood anti-Christian?

I've been trying to ignore this, but Movieguide's Ted Baehr just keeps bashing away at Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood for being "anti-Christian," and for including "one of the worst, most superficial stereotype of Christian preachers ever put

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Monster, Wretches, "Bad People" ... and Me.

Guillermo Del Toro, the new king of monster movies, is about to unleash Hellboy 2. But according to MTV.com, his mind is already busy with visions of what might be his his next big project. No, it's not The Hobbit, and no, it's not that

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Christian Film Critics Publish "Outrageous, Disingenuous Lies" for God's Glory

This week's Film Forum contains dangerous material. Christians are giving mixed reviews to The Nativity Story. Some of them love it, some of them like it, some of them don't like it. Could it be that a movie might fall short of greatness, even if the

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Warning: There's "Pushing and Shoving" in "The Nativity Story"

A prominent Christian media personality has disregarded the professional standard of waiting until opening day to publish a review of The Nativity Story, and he offers some rather, um, arresting observations: Having spent some time in Israel researching other movies, I can attest to the authenticity of even the smallest

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In the Blue Corner . . . Movieguide! - a guest editorial by Tim Willson

Many thanks to Looking Closer reader Tim Willson for this editorial on some unethical practices at Movieguide. Here's Tim... [This editorial was originally posted at Looking Closer in 2004.] Christianity Today has been forced to defend itself after recently questioning the ethics of film critic Ted Baehr, founder

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"Don't Come Knocking" - full of "Christian content"?

By the way, one of the films I recently really enjoyed -- Don't Come Knocking -- contains the following content, listed for your convenience by the "Christian reviewer" * at Movieguide: Content: * Very strong humanist, anti-biblical worldview with immoral characters who are driven by their broken souls to

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Chattaway's Back (and Under Attack!)

Chattaway's back to regular blogging, now that his wife Deanna and the twins are home from the hospital. (Congratulations again, Chattaway family!) Well, in truth, Peter never really stopped blogging, but he's got so much interesting stuff this week, I won't get specific. I&

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Chattaway's Back (and Under Attack!)

Chattaway's back to regular blogging, now that his wife Deanna and the twins are home from the hospital. (Congratulations again, Chattaway family!) Well, in truth, Peter never really stopped blogging, but he's got so much interesting stuff this week, I won't get specific. I&

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After condemning Christianity Today in public, what's Mr. Ted Baehr's next amazing statement?

Here is Ted Baehr, still thinking he is the voice of Christian film criticism ... and frighteningly enough, many of them would say that he is... as he sums up the Oscars. Here are a few choice statements: Of course, by shutting out the best family movies with godly, Christian messages

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A Movieguide Survivor Responds to the Previous Post

This comment was added to my previous post, and I'm grateful to Sean Gaffney for his input and perspective. I had the interesting experience of writing freelance reviews for Movie Guide years ago (way too far down the food chain to even meet the founder). On one hand,

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There He Goes Again: Ted Baehr Slanders Christianity Today On the Air.

Yesterday during the James D. Kennedy Coral Ridge Broadcast, Ted Baehr once again slandered Christianity Today and my colleagues in Christian film criticism. And in the meantime, he either got the facts wrong, or he lied... you decide. From a friend who heard the broadcast: Ted Baehr (who starts the

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Today’s Specials: Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Howl’s Moving Castle; Christian-defamation; pirated DVD reviews

Today’s specials: * My Reel News at CT Movies focuses on the end of the Disney boycott, but there are a lot of other news links as well. * Peter Chattaway takes a look at Mr. and Mrs Smith and Howl's Moving Castle. * Some folks who are fed up