Crosswalk Culture Update

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  Vin Diesel's Riddick Not Fast, Not Furious, and Not Much Fun When a movie titled after a character's name is more interesting when that character isn't on screen, that's a problem. Christian Hamaker Sep 06, 2013
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  Clever 'Gotcha' Not Enough to See Now You See Me Plays like a movie equivalent of a CBS procedural: high in concept, production artifice, and plot holes, while low in character depth. Jeffrey Huston Sep 03, 2013
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  Leo & Luhrmann Make The Great Gatsby Matter Luhrmann captures the opulent decor and backs it with a hip-hop soundtrack that should feel out of place but works surprisingly well. Christian Hamaker Aug 27, 2013
• Blue Jasmine Introduces Woody Allen's Newfound Sense of Justice Cate Blanchett's powerhouse performance as the titular character is what the accolade tour de force is reserved for. Jeffrey Huston Aug 23, 2013
• Epic Never Quite Lives Up to Its Name With such a title, the bar is immediately set too high for what’s a fairly conventional good vs. evil battle with spectacular visuals. Christa Banister Aug 20, 2013
• Why Johnny Cash Still Matters February 26 would have been Johnny Cash’s 81st birthday. Unlike many celebrities whose name dies out with the obituaries of their fan base, Cash continues to matter. And I think it matters that we understand... Russell Moore Aug 19, 2013
• Like Redford, The Company You Keep Harkens to an Earlier Era A captured fugitive says, "We made mistakes. But we were right." That’s the film’s view in a nutshell: sort of a Sympathy For Radicals. Jeffrey Huston Aug 13, 2013
• Neither Soaring nor Crashing, Planes Just Kinda Glides Not bad, but not awesome, and definitely below Disney standards for quality. It's cute, funny, sweet, and forgettable. Susan Ellingburg Aug 09, 2013
• Place Beyond the Pines is Both Bleak and Beguiling If points were awarded strictly on ambition, it's nothing short of epic. Unfortunately, director Clanfrance doesn't know when to say when. Christa Banister Aug 06, 2013
• Why the Great Stories Move You Art is everywhere. Yet few can explain why certain movies, books, plays, and songs resonate so profoundly. Jerram Barrs, author of Echoes of Eden, leads us to consider how truly great art depicts what God... Christianity.com via GodTube.com Aug 05, 2013
• Home Run Advances Christian Filmmaking a Base or Two Pretty much a two-hour commercial for Celebrate Recovery, but as promotional videos go it’s a surprisingly good and realistic one. Susan Ellingburg Jul 30, 2013
• Christian Artists in a Mainstream World Ryan Duncan Jul 29, 2013