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Category Archives: Music and Movies
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Load Your iPod: A Year’s Worth of New Praise and Worship
This summer Life Teen hosted three massive conferences for high school students: Steubenville East, Steubenville West, and Steubenville Atlanta. I called up each of our worship leaders and asked them what new music they played at each conference. If you are hungry for the same music that inspired you at the conference, you've come to the right place.
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Molokai: The Story of Father Damien - Catholic Movie Reviews Podcast
...sometimes we get the idea that saints are these spiritual superstars, but the story of Father Damien shows an ordinary man answering the call to extraordinary holiness. He was a young priest who did what God asked him to do, and the movie gets that across. David Wenham as Damien continually impresses as a man who you can't help but look up to.
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Inception - Catholic Movie Reviews Podcast
There are a lot of people - Catholic and secular - who are trying to turn Inception into some sort of philosophical storytelling opus, as if its messages were meant to be unfolded and discussed for generations. I beg to differ. The reason some people didn’t “get” the film is because there’s not some immense secret to get.
Inception could very possibly be the movie of the year, and it’s flat out owned the summer season. It’s a must-see, as rare as those movies are... but trying to mine it for a message on reality is like saying Terminator 2 was really a dissertation on the evils of technology. Instead, Inception is what action movies should be: a smart, well-acted story in an arrestingly beautiful and immersive world that keeps you locked in from the opening shot to the end credits.
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The Other Guys - Catholic Movie Reviews Podcast
A lot of the movie runs like a bad Saturday Night Live sketch, where each scene tries to draw out one ridiculous joke over and over and then just cuts to the next scene without any sort of resolution. And although the obscenity’s probably enough on its own to make this a skippable movie, when you add in the spastic plot and odd storytelling choices, it’s squarely in the column of stuff you don’t need to see.
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Dinner for Schmucks - Catholic Movie Reviews Podcast
A movie that's as mean-spirited as its villains. Skip it.
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Salt - Catholic Movie Reviews Podcast
Angelina Jolie plays a spy with too many secrets... but not enough storytelling.
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Toy Story 3 - Catholic Movie Reviews Podcast
Whether you're from the class of '01 or '10, you probably grew up with a love of the Toy Story movies. Woody, Buzz, and the gang of secretly living playthings filled our childhoods with adventures and imagination. It was one of the launching pads for Pixar, and the first 3D animation experience for a lot of us.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Trailer A
On December 10th, THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER returns to the magic and wonder of C.S. Lewis' beloved world - via the fantastic Narnian ship, the Dawn Treader.
LifeTeen.com Blog
Break Your Heart
While trying to get used to the new city I'm living in, I've found myself spending lots of time in the car. As I'm driving, I love to blare Taio Cruz's song “Break Your Heart”. If you haven't heard it, it's a hip hop song that's rapidly climbing the Top 40 charts. I was frustrated, though, because while it's so catchy and fun, the message is pretty sad.
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To Save A Life - Catholic Movie Reviews Podcast
"...it's pretty clear about fifteen minutes in that the movie's going to follow the story arc of a Christian drama. Not like 'TNT Knows Drama' drama, but the kind you see onstage at a youth conference. Movies that are 'Christian' a lot of times stay on the safe side - but To Save A Life gets closer to reality than most as it deals with teen suicide, teen pregnancy, and even cutting. It's a little long and a little predictable, but as far as church movies go, it's not half bad."
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