Callie Mitchell 7 Minute Read Its more than the way her blue dress glides across the ballroom floor, as if the breath of life met a watercolor painting, or how her ever-so-perfectly messy hair flows in the breeze as her horse canters through the forest. Disney’s 2015 live action Cinderella is simply captivating, a film I could watch over and…
Natasha Metzler 4 Minute Read “…there are more humans enslaved today than there ever have been in the history of the world.” (Joel Smallbone) I look at my eleven-year-old daughter, and I realize that except for the Lord’s incredible mercy in her life, she could be one of them. The country she was born in has one of the highest…
Elisabeth Adams 5 Minute Read About four years ago, Joey and Rory Feek, a Country and bluegrass duo – and real-life husband and wife – were set to film a music video at their farmhouse in Tennessee. But last minute, someone made an unexpected decision: Rory was not going to sing in the video. The song they were filming was a…
Callie Mitchell 8 Minute Read Last year, I left a conversation filled with inspiration and wonder, after learning from my dear friend, filmmaker Sarah Williams, the process involved in adapting a shared favorite novel into a film. For this year’s March of Books, I thought I might invite Sarah into the discussion to help us get to the bottom of…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read I’m old-fashioned. I prefer old hardbacks to new paperbacks. I would rather read a book with pages I can turn than one that’s contained in a reader or computer. So it only follows that I would always prefer to read the book before I watch the movie. But last fall, I found my “read it…
Gretchen Louise 5 Minute Read “Two families. A large backyard. Nine cousins with a big dream. Four years ago, this was all they had. Today, the film ‘Pendragon’ is a testimony of God fulfilling their dream in ways that they never imagined.” So YLCF reader Sarah Ferraro sums up the story of the Burns Family Studios‘ movie “Pendragon.” I had…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read “A real man’s got to be a hero to his wife before he can be anybody else’s–or he ain’t a real man!” I had heard the lines over and over. “You run into a burning building to save people you don’t even know, but you’re gonna let your own marriage just burn to the ground.”…
Natalie Nyquist 2 Minute Read My youngest brother and I traded a night of sleep for the first opportunity to see the new Narnia movie. I don’t regret it. Though I went in with no real expectations and the knowledge that no movie could take the book’s place in my affections, Prince Caspian surprised me. In a good way. Perhaps…
April H. 3 Minute Read The Nativity Story is the first Biblically-based movie to be produced by a major film company since the epic Ben-Hur (1959). Epic The Nativity Story is not, at least not on the grand scale of Ben-Hur or The Ten Commandments (1956), with lavish sets and thousands of extras. No, the strength of The Nativity Story…
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