Breakthrough Movie Review: Weird Christianity, Weirder Timing

Who needs miracles, anyway? After all, Breakthrough is coming out at a time when just about everyone not only feels like they could use a miracle right about now, but almost all of them have the means through social media to broadcast their deserved woes. Here is a film framed and wired with Judeo-Christian principles as a trojan horse of supposedly enlightened messaging keen on both evangelizing the uninitiated and soothing the believers into further submission. This is Breakthrough, a film bent on preaching to the choir with emotional hand-wringing. It’s just a shame the sermon has only the trappings of substance or spiritual investigation.

Watch: New Clips & Interviews in ‘The Fault In Our Stars’ First Featurette

In between showings of Divergent this weekend, you should check out this sweet little featurette on Shailene Woodley’s next YA movie, The Fault In Our Stars. Even though I wasn’t the biggest fan of the Divergent movie, I am excited…

Film News: Kaya Scodelario Joins ‘The Maze Runner’

The Maze Runner movie has had a rocky start to production for the past couple years. But now with director Wes Ball helming the project, things are moving swiftly for the project. Last night, Ball tweeted that Kaya Scodelario will play Teresa,…

Books to Movies: Which of Your Favorite YA Reads Might/Will Hit the Big Screen?

  Hollywood is gobbling up movie rights to almost every best-selling Young Adult novel to hit book stands in the past few years. Can you blame them? Every studio is looking for the new Harry Potter, Twilight and now Hunger…