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		<title>Finding God&#8217;s Grace in ‘Project Hail Mary’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Do you believe in God?” Ryland Grace asks his boss, Eva Stratt, in Project Hail Mary. “Beats the alternative,” Stratt says. And so it is, especially the age in which Grace and Stratt find themselves. The sun has been afflicted by, essentially, an interstellar virus. Single-celled critters dubbed astrophage have invaded the system, attached themselves [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Watching God’s Top 10 Movies of 2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 23:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Movies still speak to us. And in 2025, they had a lot to say about faith. Certainly, the year saw its share of faith-based flicks hit theaters, and many of them made a powerful impact at the box office. Two films by Angel studios landed in the box office’s top 50 in 2025: The King [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8216;Frankenstein&#8217; and the Monsters Among Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 03:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The tagline for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein reads, “Only a monster would play God.” From the time Mary Shelley first brought life to the mad doctor and his creation, Frankenstein has been filled with spiritual themes. In the 1931 film Frankenstein, the doctor exalts, “Now I know what it feels like to be God!” In [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8216;Fantastic Four: First Steps&#8217; Comes With Fantastic Messages</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 02:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the best movie ever made about Marvel’s First Family. Well, OK, that’s not hard, given the Fantastic Four’s spotty cinematic track record. A 1994 film was so bad that it was never released. The 2005 version was a box-office success but a critical failure. And the less said about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Finding a Life of Meaning in &#8216;The Life of Chuck&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Asay]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 23:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Life of Chuck hasn’t exactly set the world on fire since its release earlier this month. But while it might not be among 2025’s biggest films, it could be one of its best. Granted, this was never crafted to be a box-office blockbuster. It’s just too contemplative, too whimsical, too flat-out weird. The whole [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sinners Is a Great Movie With a Problematic Message</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 03:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You can’t deny the power, artistry and sheer entertainment value of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners. The film manages to balance horror and humor as well as any. Michael B. Jordan—playing the gangster twins Smoke and Stack—is at his charismatic best. And the music? It swings from foot-pounding blues numbers to tender Irish ballads–transcending the window-dressing treatment [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Christian Movie Season Is Here. And It Looks Crowded.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 19:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Movies go in seasons. And those seasons, like winter in New Hampshire, tend to come early. The summer movie season usually begins the first week of May. The Christmas movie season might touch off right after Halloween. And right now—even though the calendar still says that it’s winter, faith-based films are beginning to bloom. That’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Nosferatu Paints a Dark Picture That Points to the Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 22:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We’ve seen sexy vampires, sparkly vampires, atheistic vampires who might take their morning showers in holy water without ill effect. It feels like it’s been a while since we’ve seen a real vampire vampire—a monster smelling of blood and brimstone, an unholy creature at home in, at least, the upper reaches of hell. Not a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Watching God’s Best Movies of 2024</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yep, people still go to the movies. Some people wondered whether that was so earlier this year. After The Fall Guy fell, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga crashed and Argylle triggered ever-so-many confused looks, some wondered whether streaming and strikes and COVID really had changed the movie industry. But in the second half of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>We Have to Talk About &#8216;The Acolyte&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let’s not draw this out: The Acolyte failed. The first season of Star Wars’ latest series (now on Disney+) did not fail just because of its Force-powered witches. It did not fail just because a couple of those witches were, well, a couple. Those elements might’ve earned the show scorn from both Star Wars purists [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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