This Week's Movie Show

/This week’s unusual in that I’m scheduled for two shows–my usual Thursday Q & A and a Monday show on the movies with Steve Greydanus of DecentFilms.Com as the lead guest and me riding shotgun.

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Highlights:

  • Christmas With The Kranks
  • Secular Christmas movies must be punished at the boxoffice!
  • Polar Express
  • National Treasure
  • SpongeBob SquarePants
  • Clean Films & snipping offensive content from movies
  • Versions recommendations for A Christmas Carol
  • Lemony Snicket
  • Movie recommendations for children
  • The Gospel of John
  • Footprints of God
  • Alexander
  • The Da Vinci Code
  • King Arthur
  • The Snowman & Beatrix Potter films
  • Joan of Arc
  • Jesus of Nazareth
  • More on Lemony Snicket
  • Luther

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

6 thoughts on “This Week's Movie Show”

  1. I have a question about some of the comments from the program (less about movies, more about Christmas). I certainly understand why we would want to protect Christmas and see that it is treated equally with Hanukkah and any other valid religious traditions that might occur at this time of year. But I can also see why places like Macy’s would want to avoid offending people from those other traditions and would want to use a more politically correct phrase. When you speak out against changing Merry Christmas to Happy Holidays on the show, I’m confused. Would you prefer it to say, “Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Cheerful Kwanzaa?” Obviously, that’s not practical. But, there are people during the month of December celebrating other things (no matter how few). For that matter, would it make sense for me to send an explicit Christmas card to someone that I know to be Jewish? By requiring businesses to say “Merry Christmas,” aren’t we basically saying that we’re not going to give you our money unless you support Christianity over and above everything else? Jimmy, I love your work and would like to hear your more detailed comments, as well as those of other site visitors. I want to understand this better. Thanks so much!!!

  2. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought the Gospel of John went way overboard trying to make Mary Magdalene look like an Apostle. I think they also messed up John 6.

    Other than that, however, I absolutely loved it. I think they did a magnificent job in general and the word-for-word format was a nice change of pace from the typical. This would be a great educational tool for those who have trouble getting their kids/students to actually read the Bible. I actually liked it better than the Passion of the Christ.

    I’m glad I bought the DVD. If anyone hasn’t seen it yet, they should and support this film! I heard they were in danger of missing their revenue targets which could hurt any chances of seeing other books of the Bible from being produced.

  3. “Secular Christmas movies must be punished at the boxoffice! ”

    But…what about “a Christmas Story”?

  4. “A Christmas Story” is not presently at the boxoffice.

    I’m concerned with what Hollywood cranks out in the future, which is primarily influenced by new boxoffice rather than the DVD sales of a movie from the 1980s.

  6. So, once it is on DVD it is ok to enjoy secular Christmas movies, but not in the theaters? And “the Kranks” isn’t a bad movie, we just don’t want any more like it to be made, or like “A Christmas Story”, even though we enjoy them?

    I think I am confused. If secular movies should not be made, and should be shuned, doesn’t that mean that we shouldn’t like/watch them?

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