Steven Spielberg began making 8mm home movies at 12, starting with filming wrecks of Lionel toy trains. For young filmmaker Joshua Carroll, it's not trains, but LEGOs, and instead of wrecks, he's looking to build up the Body of Christ.
The child of…

'The Passion: a Brickfilm' & 'Exodus: A Brickfilm': The Bible, But With LEGOs

Plenty of cable channels love to program for Christmas, but Lent and Easter are usually reserved for sketchy Christian-themed documentaries of questionable accuracy, and the occasional faith-centric movie, special or miniseries.
Also, it's usually…

UPtv: 'The Passion of the Christ,' More During Lent, Holy Week & Easter

If you didn't get a chance to see the faith-based, fact-inspired romantic drama I Still Believe during its COVID-19-shortened theatrical run, it's available today (Friday, March 27) on video-on-demand.
Click here to learn how to watch.
The film,…

'I Still Believe': Reuben Dodd, Young Teen Actor With Rare Condition, on Playing Jeremy Camp's Brother

It’s magic hour in early June on a beach on Alabama’s Mobile Bay — which Spanish explorers may have once called the Bay of the Holy Spirit — that fleeting moment of the day when evening glows into twilight. There’s a movie wedding going on, and soon…

‘I Still Believe’ Tells Christian Singer Jeremy Camp’s Story of Love Amid Suffering

After its last season aired in 2014 on Fox, Cosmos returns on March 9 with Cosmos: Possible Worlds, this time on National Geographic Channel -- and there's something that people of faith should remember while watching.
Golfers know that they seldom,…

NatGeo's 'Cosmos: Possible Worlds': Adjusting for the Lie of the Course

Hitting theaters on March 6, Warner Bros’ The Way Back is not intended to be a faith-based movie, but it’s pretty darn Catholic for a mainstream film, with a deeply affecting, honest portrayal from star Ben Affleck.
Fresh off his own divorce (from…

‘The Way Back’: Ben Affleck Stars in a Surprisingly Catholic Redemption Drama

On Monday, March 2, actor Mark Wahlberg dropped by NBC's Today to talk about his new Netflix action-comedy Spenser Confidential, which drops on March 6. But along the way, he and host Harry Smith detoured into Wahlberg's daily prayer life and…

'Spenser Confidential' Star Mark Wahlberg Talks Faith, Family and Prayer on 'Today'

Taped in late January, the 28th Annual Movieguide Awards aired Monday, Feb. 24, on the Hallmark Drama channel, and The Chosen star Jonathan Roumie took home the Grace Award for a TV Performance.
What Is The Chosen, and Where Can You See It?
Getting…

'The Chosen' Star Jonathan Roumie Wins Movieguide Award for Role as Jesus (And Tries Not to Trip)

Sometimes awards just serve to honor shows and movies that everybody already knows about. Other times, they can lift up a worthy but not-quite-famous production. Come Monday, The Chosen gets its moment in the spotlight.
On Feb. 24 at 11 p.m. ET/PT —…

Movieguide Awards: ‘The Chosen’ Star Jonathan Roumie on Being … Chosen

George Washington was a confessed assassin?
That’s one of the historical tidbits served up by Washington, a three-night, six-hour docudrama miniseries event on the first president, airing Sunday-Tuesday, Feb. 16-18, on History. The executive producer…

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin Explores ‘Washington’ on History

A new Nat Geo Wild program showcases two Georgia veterinarians who were also Tuskegee classmates.
It’s a tense moment at Critter Fixer Veterinary Hospital in Bonaire, Georgia, as Vernard L. Hodges, DVM, struggles to get a French bulldog puppy to…

TV’s critter fixers

As a society, we spend a lot of time and energy, especially on social media, talking about puppies and kittens and calves and baby goats and lambs. It's nice to see that Netflix has taken an interest in the young of our own species.
From the…

Netflix Has Lots of 'Babies'

All dogs are individuals, but each individual within a purpose-bred, or purebred, dog breed will fit into a predictable range of height, weight, shape, coat, energy level, unique talents and temperament.
Whether as hunting companions, lap dogs,…

The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show Returns on Fox Sports/Streaming

 We're in the middle of awards season in Hollywood, and angst is thick in the air -- and a lot of it isn't from the nominees. The Academy Awards, fearing stepping into any number of minefields, is going host-free again this year.The…

In Praise of the NFL Honors​: What an Awards Show Should Be

All through its first season, CBS’ Evil has played with notions of separating the natural from the supernatural, and ordinary human evil from demonic evil (not that ordinary human evil isn’t horrific on its own). The season finale, Book 27, airing…

CBS’ ‘Evil’ Ends Season One With a Demonic Bang

On Jan. 15, PBS premiered Expedition With Steve Backshall, a 10-episode series that follows the British adventurer to far-flung locations, in search of natural wonders. It's beautiful and thrilling -- to the point of being downright scary.
Airing…

PBS' Thrilling 'Expedition With Steve Backshall': Don't Try This at Home

Many children dream of being a veterinarian and treating cute puppies and kittens -- but the reality of the job is much more than that. Premiering Saturday, Jan. 25, on NatGeo WILD, Heartland Docs, DVM, follows married Nebraska veterinarians into the…

NatGeo WILD's 'Heartland Docs, DVM' Gets Real With Life as a Country Vet

Hitting theaters as a one-night Fathom Event on Jan. 23, Blind Eyes Opened is a Christian-produced documentary that looks at sex trafficking within the United States, involving American victims and perpetrators.
January is National Human Trafficking…

'Blind Eyes Opened' Exposes the Horror of Human Trafficking in America

Dolittle may not be a great movie, but it is, as Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy said of Planet Earth, "Mostly harmless." That's rare enough to earn it a qualified recommendation.
In the annals of movie-criticism, though, NPR's take on the film, in…

'Dolittle': Robert Downey Jr., Critters and Kids Add Up to Harmless Fun

The nominations for this year's Academy Awards were released on Monday, Jan. 13, and, of course, everybody has an opinion. We're no exception.
The comic-inspired Joker racked up 11 nominations, including Best Picture, but Slate.com says this is "a…