Here’s a list of Dove-Approved films that are available to rent or buy digitally at ChristianCinema.com for your family to watch and discuss heading into Easter. Ben-Hur Anno Domini: the seventh year of Augustus Caesar’s reign. In the Roman province of Judea, Jews return to the city of their birth for the census. A bright […]
By Jacob Sahms In 2011, during a break from shooting footage on top of the Rockefeller Center for the conclusion of The Adjustment Bureau, Joel Viertel approached director George Nolfi and actor Anthony Mackie with the idea for another film. On the top floor of the building known for John D. Rockefeller’s real estate dominance, […]
By Jacob Sahms Emmy and Peabody Award-winning writer, director, and producer Ann Druyan experienced scientific ridicule, not once but twice. Nearly fifty years later, she’s still standing, having overcome the initial sense of embarrassment and tears that followed her from high school and into college. Once described by her college professor as unteachable, Druyan went […]
By Jacob Sahms In 2002, Jeremy Camp exploded onto the Contemporary Christian Music scene with hits like “Walk by Faith” and “Understand.” But just two years earlier, the singer/songwriter had lost his best friend and wife to ovarian cancer, just months after marrying her. While Camp has gone on to release eleven studio albums (four […]
By Jacob Sahms Director Andrew Heckler remembers the first time racism stopped him in his tracks. While his father’s work took the family throughout the South, his family operated from a sense of being “fairly colorblind,” in his words. But when they stopped at a little town in Georgia for a meal at a small […]
By Jacob Sahms A man stares across a war torn street as heavy fire falls down around him. Across the street, a young girl screams in tears, the remains of her family scattered around her. Dave Eubank hesitates where he is, for a split second, before running through the smoke toward the young girl, the […]
By Jacob Sahms British director Ben Cookson remembers watching Ken Loach’s Kes and being struck by the way that the director had made a recognizable England as the backdrop for his coming-of-age story. In telling Michael Morpurgo’s coming-of-age story set in World War II era Lescun, France, Cookson set out to be as faithful as possible to […]
By Jacob Sahms How would society respond if a messiah figure emerged from the Middle East and slowly traveled around the known world? The answers in the New Testament from two thousand years ago are clear, but writer Michael Petroni wondered what would happen if the messiah appeared now, in a world full of social […]
By Jacob Sahms On an overcast night in the Czech Republic’s capital, David Gyasi catches a late hotel dinner, overlooking a stone Prague bridge. While commuters flash across the bridge in different shaped cars, and a boat passes by underneath, the various stories of these individuals fascinate the native of London. It’s the sheer possibilities […]
By Jacob Sahms Greta Gerwig garnered attention for over a decade as an actress, but with the coming of age film Lady Bird, she earned two Academy Award nominations (Best Director, Best Screenplay), in her directorial debut. Now, on Christmas Eve, Gerwig stands to garner more attention with the eighth cinematic adaptation of Louise May […]