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Sherwood pictures has released the names of the cast in their upcoming movie “Courageous”

“Ken Bevel, who played Lt. Simmons in FIREPROOF, plays officer Nathan Hayes in Courageous. Director (and co-writer) Alex Kendrick, who previously played Jay Austin in Flywheel and Coach Grant Taylor in Facing the Giants, returns to the screen as Adam Mitchell.

Kevin Downes (Shane Fuller) and Ben Davies (David Thomas) portray the other Sheriff’s deputies. Robert Amaya plays the officers’ friend, Javier Martinez. Renee Jewell (Victoria Mitchell), Eleanor Brown (Kayla Hayes), Angelita Nelson (Carmen Martinez), and Donald Howze (Derrick) play other key roles in Courageous.” (info from the Provident Films newsletter)

We finally have some updates to tell you regarding the next installment in the Narnia series; “Voyage of the Dawn Treader”. First of all, an official poster is out! (see the left)

35 minutes of the film have been completed and we could even see a teaser trailer in 3-4 weeks! The film releases December 10th in Digital 3D.

Thanks to Narniaweb.com for the updates.

How to Train your Dragon wowed the critiques and all the rest of the audience. They have earned quite a bit in the box office. Now, they have announced a sequel to the film. Sequels are always exciting, but ponder on this, Are they making a sequel just because it grossed so much money, and they want to make another big hit, or, do they already have a good follow up story in plan? Money making sequels are tempting, but they have to be planned carefully with the right motives. If you have no idea what to do with the characters after the first film, but you REALLY want to make more money on the same franchise, you’ve got a problem. Making films to get more money should never be your highest priority. I’m not saying that that is Dreamwork’s priority in this instance, I’m just speculating.  Sequels often go wrong if the prime motivation is to gross huge amounts of money. Not just because you are gambling with this world of unpredictable audiences, but you will also be setting yourself up to make a movie that is expected to be better then the first, and if you do not have a good, original idea of what to do with these characters, your sequel could possibly die in the theaters.

As Dreamwork’s fires the dragons back up for a sequel, I hope they will carefully consider plot, originality, and faithfulness to characters. In that case I would be thrilled to see a sequel.

Question: What do you think about sequels? What are the worst sequels you have ever watched?

I hadn’t watched Babe since I was at least 4. I really didn’t remember any of it. I figured, everyone else liked it. (continue reading…)

Last night The 41st Dove Awards aired on the Gospel Music Channel. We have the results! (continue reading…)

The Importance of Being Earnest was based off of a play by Oscar Wilde. It was a romantic comedy, filled with dry wit. I had been very curious about seeing one of the movies, so when I found it on Instant play I was very excited.

It was a fun, witty movie, never lacking chuckles.  It was not dramatic at all, more like a play rather then a movie, and the romance’s were not terribly romantic. It was really more of  a joke on old fashioned courtship, and culture. The character’s were hilariously typical and fun to relate to, which made conversations cute and interesting.

If you’re looking for a good old British Comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) would be a good pick.

Since I have a habit of discovering movie trailers often,  I think I’ll start sharing some with you. Today I watched a trailer for a movie called “Letters to Juliet”

It caught my attention for this reason: Romance with a mild PG rating (not for sexual content) (continue reading…)