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Chappie Chugs to Championship, Chump Change
Chappie, Neill Blomkamp’s emotional robot, learned another particularly human lesson this weekend: What it feels like to win for losing. While Chappie took the weekend’s
How a Movie Birthed an Art Form (And Tarnished a Nation)
A century ago this week, New Yorkers began lining up to watch The Birth of a Nation. Though the country was still more than a
Chappie, Meet Ultron
Later on today, we’ll be publishing our review of Chappie, the latest sci-fi thinkpiece from Neill Blomkamp (Elysium and District 9). I’ll be interested to
Tales of a Third Grade Celebrity
Way, way back in the day—1972, to be precise—Judy Blume published a children’s novel called Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. To be honest, even though
The Drop Box Drops Today
Focus on the Family in conjunction with Kindred Image release their new documentary The Drop Box today through Fathom Events. The film is an intimate
A Conversation with Teen Screen Expert Dr. Kathy Koch
Each year around early December, Focus on the Family re-airs a dozen of its most popular radio broadcasts (out of 260). On that short list
Focus on the Box Office
There was a time that someone could’ve filmed Will Smith eating breakfast, put the footage in theaters and made a cool $100 mil. And while
And They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Movies
Who watches Christian movies? You? Your pastor? That aunt who always gives you throw pillows for Christmas embroidered with Bible verses? How ’bout the atheist
The Pope Talks Media Influence on Families
Technology can be a great boon to communication. But it can also be an isolating influence too, something that keeps families from talking instead of
4 Ways Leslie Knope Is More Like Jesus Than I Am
The curtains are down. The lights are out. America’s time hanging out with Indiana’s motliest crew of small-town local government employees has come to a
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