…of the 312.9 million people in America. Of that number, the Barna Group says 15% of adults, or 36.61 million people, also regularly go to Sunday School on a typical Sunday, and at least 19% of adults, or 46.37 million people, donate some of their time weekly to serving at a church. This compares to only 24.58 million people, including children and adults, who went to the movies in a typical week in 2011 in both the United States and Canada, accor… Continue reading
…are more likely to remain chaste before marriage, are generally healthier, are more mentally stable, are more likely to be financially successful later in life, volunteer to help others more frequently, and are more likely to donate money to charity. Faced with all this evidence, why don’t our leaders fight harder to protect the traditional definition of marriage, support Christian churches, protect children from the negative effects of the mass… Continue reading
…out a job that fulfills their religious calling or sense of vocation. Protestant grads excel in upholding the infallibility of the Bible and conceiving of morality as based on absolute, unchanging standards. They tithe more, donate more, volunteer more, and divorce less. They are less likely to doubt their religious beliefs, even two decades after graduation. (Although some questions arise as to whether or not this is an indication of blind indo… Continue reading
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011 (Hollywood, Calif.) Protests from Christian groups, including MOVIEGUIDE®, have taken their toll on NBC’s controversial new drama, “The Playboy Club,” whose pilot episode bombed last night in the ratings. “Playboy Club” led the network to take a ratings dive on the opening night of the Fall TV Season, bringing NBC to a distant fourth place compared to ABC, CBS and Fox. In the 1980s, NBC-TV allowed a Christian… Continue reading
By David Outten, Production Editor —————————————————— UPDATE: Box Office Weekend Estimates (from thenumbers.com) DOLPHIN TALE . . . . . . . . . $14,245,000 per theater avg. $4,053 MONEYBALL. . . . . . . . . . . .$12,500,000 per theater avg. $4,167 THE LION KING . . . . . . . . .$11,057,000 per theater avg. $4,725 50/50 . . . . . . . . …. Continue reading
…day, although records claim it was 98 years later. Cut to the Abbot of a big Benedictine cloister that includes cloistered monks and nuns. The Abbot is pointing to the shields on the wall indicating the wealthy families that donate to the cloister. Hildegard’s mother gives her daughter at the very young age of eight to the cloister as a tithe to the church, with a big offering of land. She is assigned to the older nun, Jutta (silent “J”), who is… Continue reading
…just “egregous” indecency. Urge the FCC to take action against all indeceny, not just “egraegous” indecency. Sincerely, Dr. Ted Baehr, PublisherMovieguide® Help us Financially Donate Online to Movieguide® Here Subscribe to the FREE Movieguide® eNewsletters Here P.S. Follow @Movieguideon Twitter.Action Link * http://movieguide.org/FCC.html Movieguide | 1151 Avenida Acaso | Camarillo CA 9301… Continue reading
…from Anna, Kate’s leukemia has gone out of remission, and her kidneys are now failing. With help from her brother Jesse, Anna goes to a lawyer to become “medically emancipated” from her parents, because Anna does not want to donate the kidney to Kate. Anna’s decision causes a furor in the Fitzgerald household. The movie then uses flashbacks to show how the situation got to this point. As it brings viewers up to speed, the story shows what happen… Continue reading
A new study showing that the number of dirty words in movies has decreased about 50% in the last 25 years since MOVIEGUIDE® began publishing shows that MOVIEGUIDE®’s strategy of influencing Hollywood executives is working. The study of foul language in G, PG and PG-13 movies by three Brigham Young University professors shows that the 1980s movies analyzed averaged 35 obscenities or profanities per movie, decreasing to 25 per movie in the 1… Continue reading
…language, including some strong profanity misusing the name of Jesus Christ that will further offend many Christian viewers. This foul language is accompanied by a subplot where a lesbian woman’s homosexual brother agrees to donate his sperm so that her girlfriend can have their baby. This perverted subplot belies director Berlanti’s claim that he wants his movie to achieve a “universal” appeal that everyone can understand. It also shows that th… Continue reading
