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1 month ago | 
geeksundergrace.com | Derek Thompson |Tyler Hummel |Spencer Patterson |Stephen Hall
As I recently wrote in a piece for The Federalist, the faith-based film market is in a curious position. The age of films like God’s Not Dead, Fireproof, and Heaven Is for Real has slowly mutated into a more superficially dark genre, headlined by more controversially partisan films like The Sound of Freedom, Nefarious, and Lady Ballers. However, old-fashioned faith-based films, like those from the early 2010s, are still a thing.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Derek Thompson |Tyler Hummel |Stephen Hall |Juliana Purnell
The Virgin Mary is one of the most important figures in Christianity. She is one of the most venerable and respected figures of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox faiths and a figure of high reverence among Protestants and Evangelicals. She holds the Christological title of the “Mother of God,” a refutation against the early church’s Nestorian heresy.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | or Meh |Juliana Purnell |Tyler Hummel |Derek Thompson
The recent trailer for Dear Santa drew a brief negative reaction this past month before completely disappearing. Curiously, the film quietly dropped on Paramount+ over Thanksgiving week without fanfare and a mere handful of reviews, leaving no real splash in the busy holiday season. It’s not hard to see why. Despite being written and directed by Dumb And Dumber, Fever Pitch, and There’s Something About Mary veterans Peter and Bobby Farrelly, it didn’t warrant much response.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Juliana Purnell |Derek Thompson |Tyler Hummel |Spencer Patterson
A24 doesn’t have the strongest track record when it comes to issues of religion. Several of their films like Waves, Minari, and First Reformed have nuanced understandings of the way people grapple with religion, but other films like The Witch, Saint Maud, and The Green Knight are far more skeptical of traditional religion. Certainly, these films reflect the authentic beliefs of the filmmakers that A24 chooses for auteur projects. That said, A24 generally isn’t pitching to the faith-based crowd.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | or Meh |Juliana Purnell |Tyler Hummel |Derek Thompson
This holiday season, we asked our 3 main tabletop writers to recommend 3 games so we can give you, dear readers, 12 solid recommendations. The stipulations are simple: each writer will recommend a lightweight game, a midweight game, and a personal favorite, which could be lightweight, midweight, or heavyweight. Moreover, each of these games should be readily available and released in the past 2 years.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Nathan Kiehn |Stephen Hall |Derek Thompson |Spencer Patterson
The remarkable director of Blue Ruin and Green Room has reemerged from a six-year break/delay in filmmaking (not counting a few episodes of True Detective Season 3) with a third movie of what might be considered the best trio of indie action films in the past decade. Following his 2007 indie-horror-comedy Murder Party, this director has successfully become a fan favorite among cinephiles.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Stephen Hall |Derek Thompson |Spencer Patterson |Lexi Tucker
The Mana franchise has been around in name since Secret of Mana hit the scene on Super Nintendo over thirty years ago. Mana has had some beloved entries, but no new mainline entries have graced fans’ hands since the PlayStation 2. Now the series is back with Visions of Mana, a new tale full of bright colors and familiar design sensibilities that will have long-time fans cracking a smile. Could it win new fans to the franchise?
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Jul 7, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Stephen Hall |Tyler Hummel |Spencer Patterson |Derek Thompson
There seems to be a yearly tradition that movie distributors release horror films for the annual Easter weekend. It’s not very surprising, as they make for good counterprogramming against such a hopeful holiday. Many of them though are specifically religiously themed horror movies and exorcism narratives. One can only wonder why such movies might appeal to people who don’t celebrate the holiday.
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Jul 7, 2024 | geeksundergrace.com | Stephen Hall |Tyler Hummel |Spencer Patterson |Derek Thompson
There seems to be a yearly tradition that movie distributors release horror films for the annual Easter weekend. It’s not very surprising, as they make for good counterprogramming against such a hopeful holiday. Many of them though are specifically religiously themed horror movies and exorcism narratives. One can only wonder why such movies might appeal to people who don’t celebrate the holiday.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | or Meh |Juliana Purnell |Derek Thompson |Andrew Borck
Angel Studios continues to be the master of marketing Christian films in the post-PureFlix world. Despite the ongoing secular stigma toward “faith-based” films like God’s NOT Dead and Fireproof, Angel Studios has distributed multiple successes through cleverly timed marketing pushes, political activism, and pay-it-forward programs.
