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The Secret of Kells

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Book Report #1: What one reader says about Lost & Found in the Cathedral of Cinema

Lost & Found in the Cathedral of Cinema

Book Report #1: What one reader says about Lost & Found in the Cathedral of Cinema

What does The Book of Kells have in common with my new memoir of dangerous moviegoing? Find out, and be one of the first to pre-order the book I've been writing for all of you for more than a decade now.

Three professors profess their love for The Secret of Kells

Listen as Jeffrey Overstreet welcomes Dr. Christine Chaney and Dr. Brian Bantum from Seattle Pacific University to a conversation about the many wonders of the movie The Secret of Kells.

If you loved The Secret of Kells

On Movies & Media

If you loved The Secret of Kells

For the grand finale of my film-focused research writing course at Seattle Pacific University, I treated my finals-weary students to a screening and discussion of The Secret of Kells. I didn't even realize until I was loading up the movie that, lo and behold... it was St. Patrick&

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Your new favorite Christmas movie

The world outside—it’s a dangerous place. Stick with Christian community. Where it’s safe. I have received that message—sometimes blatant, sometimes merely implied—within so many Christian communities from childhood through adulthood. I’ve been instructed to read only Christian texts, attend only Christian schools, support only

Turn It Up: Helio Sequence, GABI, & more

Turn It Up: Helio Sequence, GABI, & more

It's my lunch break at work. I'm on Seattle's Queen Anne Hill, and I've been to five coffee shops (I am not making this up) just trying to find one that has an open seat where I can rest and clear my

The Secret of Kells (2009)

The Secret of Kells (2009)

2015 Update: This week, my coworkers threw a party for those of us — including me — who have autumn birthdays. They asked me to recommend a movie that would fit our 90-minute party time span. I recommended The Secret of Kells. So we had an Irish-themed party, with bowls of excellent

Song of the Sea (2014): A Conversation With Animator and Author Ken Priebe

The Secret of Kells is gorgeous, dramatic, funny, moving, alive with mystery, and bursting with details that continue to emerge viewing after viewing. It's no surprise that it took so many years for Tomm Moore and his team to come up with another feature-length film: Song of the Sea.

The Secret of Kells (2010)

The Secret of Kells

The Secret of Kells (2010)

[An abridged version of this review was published in the October 2010 issue of Christianity Today.] "I have seen the book… the book that turned darkness into light..." These words help intoruce Tomm Moore’s film The Secret of Kells, a hand-drawn animation film releasing to DVD this

The Secret of Kells

Secret of Kells out on DVD today!

One of my favorite films of the year, and one of my all-time favorite animated features, is out on DVD today. Don't miss it. Here is a two-part conversation about The Secret of Kells, published in the Good Letters blog at Image journal: Part One and Part Two