Editor's note: Agendas Aside, a Think Christian series on homosexuality and the church, also includes pieces by Neil de Koning, Joshua Walters, Glenn Goodfellow and Jason E. Summers. People aren’t quite sure what to do with The Wise Kids. An independent coming-of-age drama about members of a church youth group…  [more]

The big surprise of Marvel’s The Avengers – a culmination of at least five previous superhero movies – is that it isn’t Iron Man or Thor or Captain America or even The Hulk who proves to be the most interesting character. It’s the villain Loki, largely unknown outside of comic-book…  [more]

The Cabin in the Woods is about many things – zombies, curses, coeds and blood – but mostly it’s about the concept of audience. When it comes to both horror movies and real life, the movie forces us to ask: who’s watching what, and how do we conduct ourselves because…  [more]

Something of an iconoclast in the Christian art scene – he first gained national attention in the 1980s as a satirical Christian pop singer – director Steve Taylor was a fitting choice to direct the film version of Don Miller’s essay collection Blue Like Jazz. Just as the book seeks…  [more]

There is nothing remarkable about the violence in the movie version of The Hunger Games, an adaptation of the Suzanne Collins novel about an oppressive society that forces teenagers to battle to the death in a televised tournament. Much of the early conversation surrounding the movie, especially in Christian circles,…  [more]