Kenny is an Australian mocumentary that I think works on a couple of levels — funny and touching, with a positive message.
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Porta-loo deliveryman Kenny Smyth is probably one of the most underappreciated professionals on the planet. But without him, this much is true: There’d be a lot more crap to deal with. In a comedy of excremental proportions, Kenny makes his rounds with his dedicated Splashdown crew and ultimately finds himself at the mother of all waste management sites — the International Pumper and Cleaner Expo in Nashville.
Carrier is an actual documentary that aired on PBS last year, I believe.
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Filmed during a six-month deployment to the Persian Gulf in support of ground troops, this in-depth documentary takes an insider’s tour of the U.S.S. Nimitz, one of America’s most storied aircraft carriers. Cameras follow Navy personnel as they perform their duties, navigate conflicts and ponder questions about patriotism and sacrifice, all against the backdrop of daily routines aboard one of the most lethal naval vessels ever constructed.
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In Christianity Today, Thomas Hibbs examines three recent films in order to tease out “one of the important tasks for a contemporary Christian approach to film.”
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I’ve often recommended the novel My Sister’s Keeper as an interesting exploration of what the British call savior siblings — using reproductive technologies and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in order to have a child that can be an organ or bone marrow donor for an ailing sibling.
On June 26, the movie version opens, starring Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alec Baldwin, and Sofia Vassilieva. I wonder if they’ve changed the ending?
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A theater in suburban Chicago is hosting MuVChat, which allows audience members to twitter their thoughts about the movie for display on screen.
“I’ve described it as a mash-up of ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000′ and Twitter,” said Rien Heald, the Naperville inventor of MuVChat.
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Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the British Parliament’s passage of a bill banning the transportation of slaves (February 23, 2007), the movie Amazing Grace brought to the big screen the life of William Wilberforce, a key figure in the British abolition movement. Wilberforce’s life and work have lessons for us as we engage culture and work to uphold human dignity amidst the bioethical challenges of our day.
Official Movie Site
CT Special Section on Amazing Grace
BBC History on William Wilberforce
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My friend David Cramer has a brief review of Gone Baby Gone posted at CBHD. In the review he points out that the film serves as a case study on ethical theory.
One is constantly torn between an appeal for “doing the right thing” and an appeal for “showing compassion.” This movie does not provide easy answers, but rather forces the viewer to choose between two ethical paradigms— absolutist and consequentialist—and to witness the ramifications of that decision.
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