Christians Movie Reviews Samples For Students

Question 1

The definition of religion is often different across different groups depending on the values and beliefs that they hold. Noticeably, most people define religion based on what history holds as true for them. Typically, the catholic Spain defines religion as a matter of doctrines, rituals, creeds and traditions. Seemingly, the catholic Spain seems to attest to the fact that religion is more of a way of life. However, this is not true according to the historical chronology of religious beliefs. Looking closely, history explains the evolution of religion through ages. Thus, religion is never a set of compact doctrines and traditions.

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There are different spiritual questions about the Christianity faith that have been troubling many faithful Christians. However, in this short film, maintaining the truth: Epistles of the New Testament, there are few of the troubling questions that are answered. Other facts that people were oblivious to are also questioned. The similarity and differences between major characters and contributors of the New Testament are also analyzed. There are some of the books and letters that were not included in the New Testament that are also assessed. The content of these books such as; the Gospel of Thomas and the letters ...

Prophets and Kings is part of a unique video series of the Faith Lessons; Prophets and Kings Session four is part of volume two of the movie series. The movie produced by Ray Vander Laan combines together religious, historical, geographical and cultural context of the scriptures and linking them with the modern day believer. Session four “The Wages of Sins” focuses on prophet Hezekiah and how his faith saved the children of Israel.
Ray Van der Laan comes from a family with a strong Christian background; he received his bachelor’s degree from the Dordt College, and thereafter he enrolled for a Masters ...

Ethiopia was mainly ruled by Emperors till 1974, where a military coup overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie from power. The documentary looks at some of the major sites that had been built by former emperors and their significances. One of the outstanding things in this documentary is the form of architecture and cosmopolitan-ship by the look of the buildings. In addition, different emperors are isolated, which helps in preserving culture among the Ethiopians. It is crucial to note that most emperors believe that their power was from God and that some Ethiopians fell under King Solomon’s lineage. Given that Ethiopia ...

Introduction

Christians have been the radicals at the forefront of the abortion debate that has undoubtedly raged on in a sea of opinions for ages. People are differently opinioned when it comes to the sensitive subject that ignites a lot of medical, moral, and legal debates. The Christians still maintain a negative force towards abortion, which they identify as being against the doctrines of biblical teachings and morality. Christians maintain that an abortion amounts to the murder of an innocent person, and cite this together with other immorality arguments. In a country like the USA today, half of the pregnancies formed, especially among young ...

Movie review: I'm in love with a church girl

I’m in love with a church girl is a 2013 drama film with a Christian theme. Steve Race directed the film that stars Adrienne Bailon (Vanessa Leon) and Jeff “Ja Rule” Atkins (Miles Montego). The film involves a love story between Miles, formerly a drug dealer and Vanessa, a church girl. The following is an analysis of the film.

The film has some contradicting or controversial biographies and promotes a controversial culture. Since it is an interracial film, there is the likelihood that viewers can take the use of Miles to play a drug dealing character as an acceptance of stereotyping that African Americans overwhelmingly engage ...

Movie Review “I'm in love with a church girl”

Biographical and a Cultural Criticism
The movie shows Miles Montego trying too hard to change his lifestyle within a short period. Having been a major drug dealer for a while, and while still maintaining strong contacts with his former colleagues the conversion to Christianity is a tall order for Miles. He is in love with a strict church girl, has just gone through a traumatic loss of mother, faces criminal challenges from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and has to handle the accident of his girlfriend Vanessa. Miles’s conversion to Christianity ends up not being a climax or a wholly convincing biography.
The film features interracial ...

The film Of Gods and Men begins with a quotation from the Bible "I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes." This neatly sums the theme of the film – everyone is a child of God - and also offers an ominous foreshadowing of the ending. Set in an Algerian monastery, nine Catholic monks live in a Muslim area, where they are accepted by the peaceful and friendly community. However, as the true story develops the safety of the monastery is threatened ...

In his article, Photography and Fetish, Christian Metz explains that the differences between photography and film are well known to his readers. However, he seeks to expound of the differences in more detail so as to enhance greater understanding of these differences. Metz argues that one of the major differences between film and photography is the idea that there is a difference in the spacio-temporal size of the lexis. According to Metz lexis refers to the area of reception of the reading unit of which both film and photography is mounted. Metz is of the view that the lexis in ...

Simon Schama’s The Power of Art portrays the quintessence of various artists, one being Caravaggio, and the painful scorn and incomprehension the artists faced during their lifetime. The episode portraying Caravaggio in the television serious by the BBC chronicles the several interesting aspects of the artist’s works.
In the opening episode of the series, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s impeccability of ‘transgression’ is portrayed. The artist had paramount ability to portray scenes from Biblical history expressing the divine infusion of God’s grace. The Pope and the cardinals of the Roman catholic Church found these pieces ...

11th July, 2011

Sociological Movie Analysis: Passion of the Christ

Introduction

The film viewed is called “Passion of the Christ.” Mel Gibson presents the passion which is known by Christians as the sacred crucifixion of their Lord and Savior by Jews who did not accept him as the messiah. The major plot and characters were deducted from accounts given in the gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Scenes included Sermon on the Mount; Mary Magdalene and the last supper. (Passion of the Christ)
The predominant sociological perspective as espoused by the author is religion. In this discussion Functionalist theory of Herbert Spencer and Talcott Parson ...

The situation on the HSM Bounty presents an excellent opportunity for studying organizational behavior, administration, and organizational decline. In particular, the film Mutiny on the bounty deals with issues such as attitudes towards leadership, toxic leadership, communication, ethics, and organizational culture. In the film, the HMS Bounty was commissioned by the English government on a mission to collect and transport breadfruit plants from Tahiti to the West Indies. William Bligh served as captain, the first time he was holding that position on a ship. Fletcher Christian, a man from a distinguished and wealthy family, serves as his second-in-command. Before ...

Complete Name of Professor

When we talk about religion and its impact to the world and society, these two always come to mind: Confucianism and Christianity. Confucianism was started by Confucius. He lived in China from about 550 to 479 B.C. He never claimed to be god but after his death, those who become his followers started to worship him. Although not many people today would call themselves as Confucianists, the teachings still have a strong hold particularly in Asia (Comparing Confucianism and Christianity, 2008).
On the other hand, Christianity came after the death and resurrection of Jesus. His followers were first called as ...

Compare and contrast the physical and mental asceticism required during his respective journeys?

Pete has to push himself to the limit physically, mentally and spiritually in all his journeys. He does this in a bid to understand the different religions. He has to show a great amount of spiritual, physical, and emotional endurance all through the pilgrimages (Michael, 2006). He shows a great deal of endurance through all the exhaustion and strain that he undergoes. In china, he has to train in martial arts. It is a very physical activity. In china, they attain spirituality through the practice of article arts. The religion in china is very physical. They express their religion through the physical. He ...

The Da Vinci Code is a well-known book and movie. As well as being a blockbuster as a film, it also raises some serious religious themes. The nature of faith is one, particularly with relation to faith being based on ignorance. Another important theme is that of the reliability of historical texts. The Bible is just one more historical text, and one which has gone through many translations over the centuries. Although I was never religious, The Da Vinci Code has changed my perception of religion, possibly forever.
The movie begins as the curator of the Louvre museum is murdered. His ...

One of the greatest problems that historians attempting to decode Jesus’ life have is that there is very little evidence. There are no sources from Jesus’ time (Public Broadcasting Service 3:00), so they have to go on interpretations of others. Nevertheless, these different layers do not always align, and are often contradictory. In addition, Jesus was a poor and rather historically commonplace person, so it was only years after his death that there were important records of his life made. This often amounts to second hand accounts, which are obviously not as reliable as first hand ones.
The Essenes ...

Directed by the famous Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai, whose films have entered the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival numerous times, Kadosh is a 1999 feature fiction film depicting the Haredi society lifestyle and its traditions, as well as the tragedies its members may sometimes face in their observant lives. Kadosh takes it to the extremes, submerging the viewer into the vital problems of men and women, who live in the Mea Shearim district of Jerusalem and choose or are forced to choose the path of the ultra-Orthodox Judaism. The plot develops around the lives of two sisters, ...

Review Essay 3

Godzilla
Monster figures can be used in affirming the existing order in that they indicate the presence of theaters to normality, which is purged. In most contemporary monster films, no reassuring vision of restored order is affirmed, and Godzilla is not an exception. The monster is usually figured as a less of an external threat to essential good social order and exaggerated as the most normal features of the same order
In the film, “Godzilla” MUTO is introduced as the antagonist; MUTO (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism) is a species of a giant monster. They are considered the first giant ...

Undoubtedly, Terrence Malick is one of the most enigmatic artists of the modern cinematography. The majority of his films affect the most profound and controversial issues of human existence. The director is well known for his visual and poetic approach to cinematography, for which he is occasionally praised and scolded by critics. Recently, he turns to the Christian themes and speaks directly about God and with God in his films. In the film "The Tree of Life," Malick raises the question of the knowledge of God and the meaning of suffering, while his picture "To the Wonder" interprets love ...

Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010), Divine Comedy of Dante
It is a common knowledge that this movie is adapted from Dante Aligheri’ called The Divine Comedy. This movie is animated from the country of Japan. The story is really simple. Dante had apparently gone to the Crusades for spiritual nourishment. However, when he came back, he found that his wife, Beatrice had been slaughtered. The Dark One, the name Dante gives to grim the reaper, was nonetheless present to take to hell, the girl’s soul. Dante did not know the reason for this. He therefore followed the ...

The Bagdad Taxi, a documentary movie directed by Frederic Tonnoli sends chills down the spine of everyone who watches it, at least mine had chills. The setting of the film was months after the end of the tenure of the American troops in Iraq. The movie revolves around a filmmaker who sojourns the country of Iraq right from one far end to the other, in a taxi with Khalid, who doubled as both his friend and a cab driver. The journey covered over ten Iraqi towns with a good number of over a hundred police checks, as the filmmaker ...

The global financial crisis of 2008 has left its indelible mark on history. A series of explanations, which appeared along with difficult economic terms, abbreviations, and other puzzlingfactors were published in every newspaper. It is impossible to explain all this in a few words, so the media began to fill long texts with detailed explanations of economic phenomena. And seven years later comes the picture of Adam McKay's "The Big Short" which sets itself the task to tell the real story as simple as possible for the viewer in a simple language.
Adam McKay managed to create an impressive ...

John Grisham, the writer of the novel Rainmaker, together with Bob Yeoman and Francis Ford Coppola that is produced as a movie Starred by Matt Damon and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It outlines the corrupt, selfish, and greedy American society (Movie Reviews for Christians, 2012) legally, the word “rainmaker” in law means someone who brings in big clients to a law firm. Rudy, who is the star of the film, is a humble broke lawyer whose ambition is to make things right in the society where the poor are powerless. When he exposes the Great Benefits Insurance Company, ...

____(3) 1.  Select which category [in parentheses] this documentary fits into and explain why you think it best fits that classification. (awareness/social concerns, biography, research/informative, investigative)
This documentary fits best into the category of awareness/social concerns because the slave trade was a terrible event that more people need to be aware about because it destroyed the lives of many African families for at least 400 years.
____(3) 2. Discuss at least three major themes within this documentary, using examples from the film to support your choice. Your discussion should consist of a paragraph for each theme and ...

Throughout history, Bollywood films have illustrated a representation of women in India in various forms. Arguably, it is certain that Bollywood films comprise of gender-based stereotypes. The female characters, situations, and plots concerning women in Indian films have been steered by stereotypical ideologies. Across the globe, extensive research had indicated that Indian films top the list of undermining women. Moreover, a sample survey established that Indian females, for an extended period of time, have portrayed females in sexualized roles. It is well-known that the notion of objectifying women on the screen has been a conspicuous issue that the films ...

Mean Streets (1973) Martin Scorsese

Introduction

A film is a story or an event that is a set of moving images or motion pictures and is shown in theater or on television. Films always portray different messages in them depending on the subject topic. The message they portray or carry mainly depend on the plot, setting of the movie and the role the different characters take up in the film or movie. The intent of the film is always in the main theme and this is always the beneficial part of the film to the viewers or the consumers (Merritt ...

The Displaced Person movie review

How often in life some considerable things that are passing by people prefer not to perceive at all. It is easer to fence yourself off the obscure situation, to take the role of the unbiased arbitrator and just observe. However, there comes a day that all your indifference will strike a knock-down blow. To prevent such an unpleasant moment or avoid these consequences at all you should learn to take every event in life into your own consideration and try to experience them as an instructive lesson. If you recognize your own fears and make efforts to overcome them ...

It seems that almost each horror or science fiction film is being interpreted as an allegory of some particular realities; in addition, the supernatural characteristics described in such films are sometimes seen and described as symptoms of political and/or social diseases. For example, “zombie” horror movies tend to describe how paranoia and panic even among the beloved ones take over the common sense and traditional social norms. Current example of such movie is “28 Days Later” by Danny Boyle, in which he depicted post-apocalyptic world abandoned and destroyed by an epidemic that transforms ...

1. Describe the emergence of abolitionism in American society and its significance. Give examples.
2. Describe the distribution of slavery in the South. Describe slave culture and how it helped slaves bear up under the pressures of slavery. How did southern whites defend slavery?
The Southern states of America were growing in economic power through their plantation system. After the first plantations were expanding and the new were emerging, the plantation owners needed more people, in particular, slaves for work, and, thus, more slaves have been brought from Africa. Gradually, the number of slaves started rising and ...

Niall Ferguson, in his famous documentary, The Ascent of Money, presents a detailed account of financial history. Ferguson is a historian who has a profound understanding of economics. His research and way of presenting his arguments is accurate, scientific and commendable. Ferguson presents his arguments in accordance to appropriate facts and figures that educate readers about the European financial history in a realistic manner. This paper intends to discuss Niall Ferguson’s documentary along with discussing other related aspects of the area under discussion.
The documentary is about history of borrowing currency. It also educates readers when people started lending to other ...

English

Superman is a superhero known by all people in the world. Many young children identify with superman and an even greater number of young children aspire to be superman when they grow up. As such superman has a special place in the heart of every human being who has experienced or rather underwent a childhood. Superman is an iconic figure as far as the super hero universe is concerned and is revered by a very large number of people all over the world. The latest depiction of this iconic hero is the movie man of steel. This motion picture has been long awaited ...

"I wanna be Like Mike documentary"

This documentary presents the idea of shift in the perception of opportunity among parents and young people in America. I agree that education in the United States was traditionally treated as being an important pipeline to well-paying jobs and a better life. However, this supposition has slowly been dissolved as the idea of drafting into the NBA has become engrained into the US cultural framework. The American society seems to have little concern about education. Parents and young people have embraced the idea that you do not have to necessarily be educated to be in a position to make large amounts ...

In the 1999 comedy-drama film, The Big Kahuna, three salesmen are presented in a hotel hospitality suite at an industrial tradeshow. The name of the film is based on the name that these three character use to refer to Dick Fuller, a wealthy businessman they plan to deliver their sales pitch to. The first character is Larry, played by Kevin Spacey, a forthright, sharp-tongued veteran, who lives his life just to sell industrial lubricants. The second character is Phil played by Danny DeVito, another veteran, whose personal problems have caused him to become depressed, shabby and threadbare. Finally, there is Bob played ...

Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman is a play written by Arthur Miller in the year 1949. The play tells of man’s disillusionment and despair. The author narrates the story through the mindset of Willy – the main character in the play. Willy, an ordinary salesman residing together with his family in New York, is obsessed with the American dream and making as much money as possible. However, his big dreams fail to materialize and he ends up a depressed man. As a result, he starts to speak alone. He also rants at his sons for failing to follow his vision for them. A critical ...

Technology has been welcomed by people across the globe from time immemorial. However, the rate at which thinks happen nowadays creates worries than solutions to the human race. With the rampant increases in the level of technology people are confused whether to appreciate disown technology as far as god’s creation is concerned. People have always argued that god did not intent to create a lazy being thus he gave human beings minds to liberate themselves from their woes. They argue that god’s intention was to restructure the world by insisting that only those who work have to eat. ...

Personal Reflection

The movie was a real eye opener for me. Until I saw it, I never really understood what happened to cause the 2008 meltdown. I never understood what the big deal was about home mortgages. All I knew then was that the U.S. and the world were in a financial crisis.

The movie made me realize how complex and complicated it all was. It was quite surprising for me to learn that the fate of the American economy – probably even that of the world – lay in the hands of a few powerful men. I was especially struck by what Timothy Geithner told ...

The 2005 film, Constantine explores the ideas of heaven and hell and their impact on the day to day lives of the people on Earth. In terms of its success, the film was, financially, a big one and took a total of $230,884,728 at the box office. However, it was greeted by a mixed reaction from critics and audiences alike – this was largely due to the film being based on a popular comic book series entitled Hellblazer. The film tells the story of John Constantine, a man who is able to see demons and angels at work on Earth and takes on ...