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Christianity Today Movies is an award-winning website devoted to film reviews, interviews and commentary, all written from a biblical perspective. Our mission statement is "to inform and equip Christian moviegoers to make discerning choices about films through timely coverage, insightful reviews and interviews, educated opinion, and relevant news—all from a biblical worldview."

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The Christianity Today Movies staff:

Mark Moring
Online Editor/Music & Film
Mark has been a film buff since his preschool days when he saw The Deadly Mantis, a 1957 black-and-white movie he now recognizes as one of those lame horror flicks best suited for Mystery Science Theater. But the film, starring a giant praying mantis that snacks on humans, gave young Mark so many nightmares that he immediately recognized the power of the silver screen. Since then, Mark has seen his favorite movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, about 75 times. He can annoy you to death by quoting every single line of Raiders dialogue ("Asps. Very dangerous. You go first"), which proves he's really grown up. Mark, wife Nina, and sons Pete and Paul often quote movie lines during the course of their conversations at home.

Our Reviewers:

Carolyn Arends
Carolyn has a lot of skeletons in her movie closet. She's not particularly a fan of the Star Wars movies or even those Hobbit films (please don't tell the others, they'll roll their eyes and ostracize.) She can recite unseemly quantities of dialogue from a canon of tour bus classics like Tommy Boy, So I Married An Axe-Murderer and This Is Spinal Tap. She is a card-carrying fan of the Screwball Comedy (What's Up, Doc? comes to mind). Not a very promising resume for a serious film reviewer. And yet, claiming a love for language, a passion for story, and a fascination with art as the lie that makes us see the truth, Carolyn offers up her opinions on movies great and small. In addition to writing film reviews, Carolyn is a recording artist, author, wife, and mother of two young (certifiably adorable) offspring whom she blames for her love of all things Pixar. Carolyn blogs at her official website and resides in Vancouver, BC.

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Russ Breimeier
Russ remembers Star Wars as the first movie he ever saw at the age of four(Dad took him out for popcorn during the scary parts). From an early age, his parents encouraged him to read the reviews of critics like Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert to help decide what movie the family would see for the weekend. It's only natural that Russ would grow up a self-proclaimed media junkie and eventually end up reviewing films. Russ' favorites include the sweeping blockbusters of the last 25 years (Indiana Jones, Star Wars), and he also enjoys looking for modern parables and Christian themes within movies. In addition to writing film reviews, Russ is managing editor of Christian Music Today, ChristianityToday.com's online music magazine.

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Peter T. Chattaway
Peter studied history, religious studies, and film at the University of B.C., so naturally, he loves Bible epics more than any sane man should, and he counts Charlton Heston movies among his favorite guilty pleasures. The first film Peter remembers seeing is Herbie Rides Again, but it was the original Star Wars that got him excited about film. For years, Peter has said his three favorite films of all time are Lawrence of Arabia, The Purple Rose of Cairo, and an obscure British flick called The Family Way. He is also an avid soundtrack collector, and he is especially fond of films like Fantasia, Koyaanisqatsi, and 2001: A Space Odyssey which minimize dialogue in favor of music and images. Peter also reviews films for Books & Culture and CanadianChristianity.com.

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Lisa Ann Cockrel
It's possible that Lisa's love for movies can be traced to the hot Texas summers of her youth when the coolest seat in town was at the local Cinema 6. But even though she's now living in the land of "lake effect" snow, movies continue to draw her to the local theater. Lisa's own cinematic tastes lean toward the offbeat pics like Bottle Rocket, Muriel's Wedding, Harold and Maude, and All the Real Girls. She's the managing editor for Brazos Press(all things really do go back to Texas), and her byline can be found in a number of publications including Sojourners and Today's Christian Woman.

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Camerin Courtney
Perhaps because her parents got her name from a movie actor (screen star Cameron Mitchell) or because she grew up in a movie-loving family, Camerin—managing editor of Today's Christian Woman magazine—has been a movie fan for as long as she can remember. In fact, one of her favorite amenities of her suburban Chicago apartment is the art-house theater two blocks away. A fan of indie and international flicks, Camerin's friends accuse her of only watching movies with subtitles—to which she replies, "Nyet! Ce ne vrai pas." She will admit that one of her favorite movie sub-genres is quirky international flicks with dancing, a la Strictly Ballroom, Billy Elliot, and Shall We Dance?

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Brandon Fibbs
Brandon took his own sweet time getting around to a life of film after first trying his hand at everything from Bible College to working on Capitol Hill to flying in the Navy. His wife refers to him as a film snob and constantly bemoans their DVD collection's distinct lack of comedies and equally troublesome overabundance of science fiction. A sucker for the epic movies of yore, Brandon's favorite film is Lawrence of Arabia. He writes weekly for the Colorado Springs Gazette and several online publications, assists with film festivals, and has taught film at the university level. He has a BA in English Literature from the University of Colorado and an MA in Cinema Studies from NYU. While he adores writing about other people's films, Brandon hopes that someday soon others will be writing about his films. Brandon, who also writes frequently for his own website, makes his home in New York City and Washington D.C.

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Frederica Mathewes-Green
Way back in the '70s, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, Frederica was taking courses with titles like "German Film of the 1930s." With an English major and Cinema Studies minor, her goal was to become movie critic for The Village Voice. God has a sense of humor. Today, in addition to penning reviews for CT Movies and National Review, she also writes regularly for Beliefnet.com, First Things, Books & Culture, Christianity Today, and many other publications. So far she's published 8 books, primarily about ancient Eastern Christian spirituality, and about 600 articles—most of which are posted on her website, Frederica.com (that's also where you can check her busy speaking schedule). Her favorite movie genre is dark comedy (e.g., Dr. Strangelove). She doesn't say "black comedy" any more, not since someone asked, "You mean like Spike Lee?"

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Steven D. Greydanus
Married with five kids, Steven doesn't know when he finds time to watch movies, let alone review them. Somehow he posts regularly at his Decent Films website, writes weekly for the National Catholic Register, and does a number of radio shows. He never knows what to say when people ask what his favorite films are, but touchstones of his tastes include A Man for All Seasons, The Kid Brother, My Neighbor Totoro, Diary of a Country Priest, Singin' in the Rain and The Incredibles. A member of the Faith and Film Critics Circle and the Online Film Critics Society, Steven has degrees in media arts and religious studies.

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Todd Hertz
Long long ago in an Illinois town far far away, Todd saw The Empire Strikes Back in a theatre when he was only three years old. Seeing the opening Battle of Hoth—and specifically the frighteningly monstrous AT-ATs—is officially Todd's first memory of life. This set the stage for a lifetime of loving movies, and well, geekiness. Todd is an editor with Ignite Your Faith, a Christian magazine for high school students, a regular film critic for ChristianityTodayMovies.com and a TV critic for Christianity Today magazine.

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Josh Hurst
Talented, handsome, and modest to a fault, Josh Hurst obsessively writes about music and film at his website, Reveal. Though his friends call him a film snob, Josh prefers to think of himself as having broad cinematic horizons and sophisticated tastes. His favorite films of all time include the Three Colors trilogy, The Royal Tenenbaums, Almost Famous, Raising Arizona, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, though he'll always have a special place in his heart for the silly sight gags and punny wordplay of Airplane! and Top Secret! When he grows up, Josh wants to be just like Jeffrey Overstreet.

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Brett McCracken
Brett is an avowed disciple of Terrence Malick and watches The Thin Red Line about once a month. He also adores the films of Richard Linklater, Sofia Coppola, Jim Jarmusch, and David Gordon Green. Since graduating from Wheaton College in 2005, Brett has published numerous commentaries and criticisms of movies, music, art and culture. A longtime contributing writer/editor to Relevant, Brett has also written for Ignite Your Faith, Sacred History, Looking Closer, and Radiant. Now a grad student in Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA, Brett edits the department's e-journal, Mediascape. He also has become a prolific blogger of late, having started his self-proclaimed "anti-blog" in the summer of 2007.

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Jeffrey Overstreet
Jeffrey is the author of Auralia's Colors, a critically acclaimed new fantasy novel from WaterBrook Press. He has also written Through a Screen Darkly, which chronicles his experiences as a Christian moviegoer, and his conversations with filmmakers, actors, and audiences. For six years, Jeffrey wrote CT's "Film Forum" column, and for ten years he has posted film and music reviews at Looking Closer. He'salso been published in Books & Culture, Paste Magazine, and Image, and he works at Seattle Pacific University. His favorite filmmaker is Krzysztof Kieslowski. He can be reached at joverstreet@gmail.com.

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