Christians and Movies

Here is an interesting review of a new book that just came out called "Through a Screen Darkly: Looking Closer at Beauty, Truth, and Evil in the Movies" by Jeffrey Overstreet. Overstreet is a film critic for Christianity Today magazine.

From the review:

Rather than take the typical “Christian film book” route and highlight the obvious films ( The Shawshank Redemption, Braveheart, The Matrix, Star Wars, etc) with spiritual “applicability” (whatever that means), Overstreet takes a more holistic look at cinema itself. He structures his comprehensive discussion by genre, covering happy adventure film (Indiana Jones), bleak art-house cinema, violent westerns (Unforgiven), social justice fare (Born Into Brothels, The Motorcycle Diaries), comedy, horror, fantasy and everything in between. Each section is peppered with tidbits from Overstreet’s many interviews with filmmakers (everyone from Charlie Kaufman to Kevin Smith), as well as quotes from wise authors and thinkers like Frederick Buechner, C.S. Lewis, Shakespeare, Annie Dillard and Flannery O’Connor.