Tag Archives: christianity

Jesus Camp

Posted on August 31, 2006 by James McNally

This isn’t showing at TIFF this year, but it looks really fascinating. Chilling, actually. Perhaps it will be one of the Doc Soup documentaries in the fall? I hope so. Check out the trailer.

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Who Was Lonnie Frisbee?

Posted on June 14, 2005 by James McNally

I’m not really old enough to remember it, but the “Jesus People” movement was a full-blown phenomenon in the late 1960s and into the early 1970s. Centred mostly in northern California, hippies began getting into Jesus and these “Jesus Freaks” … Continue reading →

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The Cross and Bones

Posted on April 24, 2005 by James McNally

The Cross and Bones (Canada, 2005, Director: Paul Carrière, 69 minutes): Drumheller is a town in the Alberta Badlands where a lot of dinosaur bones are buried. It’s also the site of an annual Passion Play put on by area … Continue reading →

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The Education of Shelby Knox

Posted on April 23, 2005 by James McNally

The Education of Shelby Knox (USA, 2005, Directors: Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt, 76 minutes): This film follows the life of 15-year-old Shelby Knox, a teen living in conservative Lubbock, Texas. Though from a conservative Christian Republican family, Shelby is … Continue reading →

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Faith and Film

Posted on July 2, 2004 by James McNally

You know how I love these film lists! Here’s an interesting one. Well, interesting to me anyway. Arts and Faith has assembled a list of the Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films. I’ve seen 41.2. The fraction is due to their … Continue reading →

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