Jan
16
Island of Grace is the “Christian-ified” version of the film Rescued (one of Candlelight Media’s dual release films discussed in a previous post). While I wasn’t a huge fan of Rescued, I was curious about the differences and decided to re-watch both films to see what changes were worthy of note. You may ask: why? Why spend …
Sep
27
Conventional wisdom says movie ratings in the US are far more tolerant of violence and gore than sex and nudity, in contrast with Europe and Asia where it is usually reversed. Restrictive NC-17 ratings that would keep younger viewers away entirely are primarily given for sexual content, while films with extremely violent content routinely …
Apr
19
[Continued from Part 1] When I was in the Stake Sunday School Presidency some years ago, our primary responsibility was to consult with ward presidencies on the question: ‘How can we improve teaching in the Church?’.
Jan
30
Brief reports from Friday / Saturday from the 2011 LDS Film Festival:
Jan
25
Already some schedule changes with the 2011 LDS Film Festival (which starts tomorrow, January 26th). The original schedule had a late-night Friday showing of The Maze — a horror film / thriller featuring a group of teens who sneak after hours into a corn maze and are stalked (pun intended) by a serial killer. The …
Dec
20
The original Production Code for motion pictures in 1930 (called the “Hays Code”) contained strict prohibitions against “pointed profanity”, defined as “the words, God, Lord, Jesus, Christ — unless used reverently”. While falling out of favor quickly (the Hays Code also contained strict prohibitions against things like “sexual relationships between the white and black races” …
Dec
08
Series Introduction: Movie ratings are traditionally based on three primary criteria: profanity, sex, and violence, with some additional emphasis on drug use. One of the flaws of the current rating system is that each level of PSVD content is wrapped into the same rating, without considering the different categories of content individually. As such, the …
Oct
22
Link to Part 5 of Richard Dutcher’s interview with Mormon Stories and my comments below:
Oct
18
Link to Part 4 of Richard Dutcher’s interview with Mormon Stories and my comments below:
Sep
28
Note: I’ve been working on this post on and off for a long time as these ideas have been percolating. Some of my notes from a while back I can’t make head nor tail of now. If the post is longer than it should be and somewhat disjointed, I hope you’ll forgive that and attribute …
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