Episode Forty Two (42) - Come What May

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In celebration of today's Presidential Inauguration, we review the movie that was hyped to "change the election."

We're talking, of course, about Come What May , the first movie from Advent Film Group.  This is the movie we reported on last week when they signed a distribution deal with Sony, so look for it on store shelves soon.  

We bring our usual SuperCandid look at this film, and we're not afraid to hold it up to another independent Christian film that Sony picked up for distribution, one that later became a huge hit.  Tune in to find out which one!

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Our music this week is "Sexx Laws" by Beck.

Come What May on IMDB

Advent Film Group Home Page

Future Advent Film Group Projects

Patrick Henry College Information

Article about an interview with Michael Farris , founder of Patrick Henry College and actor (as himself) in Come What May .  The original interview appeared on NPR's Fresh Air, and you can listen to the full interview here.

Come What May  Trailer:

"Come What May" from George Escobar on Vimeo.




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Year in Review -REDUX

We switched back to our old podcast host, the non-free but reliable Libsyn. So we're back up. Our Christmas episodes are missing at the moment, but they will gradually be added again. Expect updates when they go live.

This week we have our 2008 Year in review Spectacular! We cover our favorite movies from this past year's podcasts, our favorite movies overall, video games, comics, books. Even a touch on music.

But just a touch, or else Don would put us over the 3 hour mark.

You can see almost all the movies I watched in 2008 on my IMDB list.

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Episode Thirty Four - Road to Redemption

Our 34th Episode covers a the 2002 World Wide Pictures (Billy Graham's movie studio) release, Road to Redemption . Starring Pat Hingle of The List, this movie is the story of a young woman who ends up in debt to both the bank and the mob. Desperate, she turns to her estranged grandfather, a retired oil baron. But he has a price for his money; she must go with him on a trip up the Road to Redemption! SHOW NOTES: Katy Hudson/Perry billboard story. Our story on Guitar Praise: Solid Rock. Kotaku's recent update on said video game. Links to buy The Home Coming (our review) or Power Play (our review). *** Since Muxtape is dealing with The Man right now, I'm not posting the intro and outro musics... but you can go get them yourself! Here's what we used... Intro - 'Road to Rouen' by Supergrass Outro - 'Busy Body' by Jonezetta Subscribe to the SuperCandid Podcast, the number 1 podcast for Christian movies Subscribe to the SuperCandid Blog (Direct MP3 Download) Save This Page

Episode Thirty Three - The List

The SuperCandid Podcast returns with a review of The List, Gary Wheeler's adaptation of Robert Whitlow's novel of the same name.

The film stars Macolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange, Time after Time, Heroes), Chuck Carrington (JAG) and Hilarie Burton (One Tree Hill).

The film follows Carrington's character Renny who discovers that his father has left the massive family fortune to charity.  Renny is distraught until he learns that the only thing that his father did leave him is "The Covenant List of South Carolina," a mysterious document dating back to the civil war, that is described as the true source of his family's riches.

Tune in to the podcast and see what we thought about the film, which is available from both Amazon and ChristianCinema.



SHOW NOTES

Look for a full write up on the ICVM Awards tomorrow.

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Fireproof - First review!

I've found the first review online for Fireproof!  

Of course faithful readers know about the new movie from the Kendrick Brothers, and while this might not technically be the first online review(the Internet is a big place after all), it is the first that I've seen.  

Mikel Wisler reviewed the film on his own blog,  based on a preview screening he was lucky enough to attend.  He has some good thoughts, and it sounds like an even handed review, although he does a lot of the typical "pretty good for a Christian movie" justifications.

Rest assured, dear reader, we will not make any such excuses.  I'm hugely excited to see Fireproof, but we will live up to the name of our show/blog and tell it to you straight.  I know that we've had these kind of justifications before, especially with a lot of the emotional romances(where we hate the entire genre so much we have to qualify any comment with, "for this type of film"), but this is the AAA level of Christian movies.  This is the movie that makes or breaks the Kendrick Brothers.  Flywheel was a low budget, under the radar success.  Facing the Giants exploded out of nowhere.  This is the one that everyone will see; that everyone has been looking forward to.  It won't be enough to be as good as Facing the Giants; this has to be better.

No pressure or anything.  

(Mikel Wisler review)
(I originally found this review through another website that was posting mostly old Fireproof news)

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Episode Twenty Five - The Visitation

Mysterious happenings.  Mysterious strangers.  Mysterious church revival meetings.  Mysterious veterinarians.  

The Visitation abounds with mysteries and mysterious happenings in general.  From the Director of Thr3e, but don't hold that against him, Robbie Henson brings you Martin Donovan(Saved), Edward Furlong(T2, Warriors of Terra) and Randy Travis(The Wager, CMT).  This supernatural thriller is from a book by Frank Peretti.  Hmm... Peretti wrote The Hangman's Curse.  Henson directed Thr3e.  Will this combination buck the trend?  Tune in and find out in the always surprising SuperCandid PODCAST!

Sorry we're a couple days late, but as we mention on the show we had some technical difficultites.  

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Genius Products anncounces DVD release of Pure Flix's movie, The Wager(starring Randy Travis, of The Visitation!).  

Sherwood Pictures releases the first trailer and footage from Fireproof, the latest film from the Kendrick Brothers, starring Kirk Cameron(Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers).  You'll find the other footage hidden in the "His & Hers" section.

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2007 Christianity Today Critic's Choice Awards

You might recall that we talked about the bizarrely awarded "Christian Oscars," on our last episode.  A quick recap, for those just tuning in; the 16th Annual Faith and Values Gala, sponsered by the self-described Christian Film & Television Commission, gave out their awards February 12.  Ted Baehr, the founder of the subscription-only website movieguide.org and of the similarly titled Movieguide magazine, hosted the event.  Their list was more than a bit questionable, both in terms of quality(Spider-Man 3?) and in terms of Christian values(Live Free or Die Hard?)

So, in the spirit of this, and in celebration of the Academy Awards last night, this week I'm going to post a couple of much better examinations of movies from a Christian perspective.  

For starters, lets go with one of the best Christian movie resources on the Internet, Christianity Today Movies.  They recently had their critics' top 10 of 2007, and all of their choices are top notch.  

1.  Juno

2.  There Will Be Blood

3.  Atonement

4.  Lars and the Real Girl

5.  Ratoutille

6.  No Country for Old Men

7.  Hairspray

8.  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

9.  Zodiac

10.  Into Great Silence

They also list among their runners up some of my favorite movies of 2007, including Gone Baby Gone, Paprika and Sweeney Todd:  The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

If you click through to their page, you can find links to their reviews for all of these films, in which, alongside the film's artistic merits, you'll find the reasons that a Christian film viewer might be interested in such films.  More reasoning that what you'll find justifying the mysterious choices from Movieguide.

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2007 Christianity Today Critic's Choice Awards

You might recall that we talked about the bizarrely awarded "Christian Oscars," on our last episode.  A quick recap, for those just tuning in; the 16th Annual Faith and Values Gala, sponsered by the self-described Christian Film & Television Commission, gave out their awards February 12.  Ted Baehr, the founder of the subscription-only website movieguide.org and of the similarly titled Movieguide magazine, hosted the event.  Their list was more than a bit questionable, both in terms of quality(Spider-Man 3?) and in terms of Christian values(Live Free or Die Hard?)

So, in the spirit of this, and in celebration of the Academy Awards last night, this week I'm going to post a couple of much better examinations of movies from a Christian perspective.  

For starters, lets go with one of the best Christian movie resources on the Internet, Christianity Today Movies.  They recently had their critics' top 10 of 2007, and all of their choices are top notch.  

1.  Juno

2.  There Will Be Blood

3.  Atonement

4.  Lars and the Real Girl

5.  Ratoutille

6.  No Country for Old Men

7.  Hairspray

8.  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

9.  Zodiac

10.  Into Great Silence

They also list among their runners up some of my favorite movies of 2007, including Gone Baby Gone, Paprika and Sweeney Todd:  The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

If you click through to their page, you can find links to their reviews for all of these films, in which, alongside the film's artistic merits, you'll find the reasons that a Christian film viewer might be interested in such films.  More reasoning that what you'll find justifying the mysterious choices from Movieguide.

(Christianity Today Movies)

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Christian movies among those not screened for critics

Can you spot Bob the Tomato in that picture? I think he's lurking in the back, but as usual, he is notably absent from recent VeggieTales productions. I remember when he was all over them, talking about God and the Bible and such all the time.

It is usually a bad sign when movies don't screen for critics. Typically it means that the studio believes that reviews could only hurt a film, so they just skip the whole process.

Unfortunately, Universal has decided to go that route with the latest VeggieTales movie, The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything, as the Orlando Sentinel reports.

Now, this might mean that Universal is enlightened enough to be looking ahead to a time when preview screenings aren't given to an elitist group of critics who then filter out what people actually watch(sarcasm intended), but given the other movies that other movies not screened include the latest Uwe Boll videogame epic, the latest spoof from the creators of the awful Epic Movie, the latest in a long line of awful American remakes of mediocre Japanese horror films and the latest of Sylvester Stallone's 20 Years After-style sequels.

Come to think of it, I actually really want to see Stallone's latest Rambo film. It features him rescuing Christian missionaries, so maybe we could squeeze it in somehow. You think Christianity Today will do a cover story on it to legitimize it for Christian audiences?

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Episode Fourteen - Hell House

Welcome to our worst episode ever, Hell House! Listen as we battle sound problems, unstable furniture and each other in a knock-down-drag-out fight for the gold! Whatever that means. George Ratliff's "Hell House" is a documentary about a church in Cedar Hills, Texas and the annual 'doom house' they hold each October. The 'hell house' is much akin to that of a traditional haunted house, only instead of being filled with monsters and ghosts, its filled with botched abortions, school shootings and suicide attempts, with the message of salvation delivered at the end of the show as the cherry on top. Its the 'scared away from sin' tactic, and Ratliff covers the whole thing from conception to the final night of production. Jon and I were very skewed on our opinions of the film, and had some decent commentary, but poor audio quality was the real ghoul in this episode, and most of the content is a skittish mess. Enjoy! *** Show Notes If you're like me and don't know who Dr. John is, then you can read up on his wikipedia entry(it must be true!). But apparently Don was talking more about some guy named Dr. Hook, who in between albums tries to get that darned Peter Pan! You can see the official website for the Trinity Church's latest Hell House here. Some general info about Hell Houses can be found in the wikipedia entry, along with the name of that New Mexico pastor I couldn't remember, Keenan Roberts. On interesting note is that Roberts worked with New York theatre company Les Freres to bring the Hell House to NYC a couple years back. You can read about it from the Newsweek article or the theatre company's archives. Judging from the pictures it looks like they had quite a bit higher production values, but judging from the article, and the other quotes on the company website, it seems that they turned the Hell House into a mockery of simple-minded people from fly-over country. Don't get me wrong, I think that many things Christians do deserve to be made fun of, but I don't think you should dress it up as "art." Call it parody, satire or straight up comedy, but don't try to tell me it's some kind of great art. I'm surprised Roberts worked with them on this since it takes the only thing that makes Hell House relevant, the sincerity of the performers, and strips that away to leave only, as a guy from the Hell House documentary put it, "cheesy dialogue and cheap sets." Without belief the Hell House is just dumb. With belief it may still be a bit dumb, but it is fascinating. Finally, for the sake of your sanity pray that you don't mix up this Hell House with either the Richard Matheson novel, or the movie it inspired. Although, this would be a great poster and take line for a Christian Hell House. notes by jon *** I think I was getting my Dr. John mixed up with my Dr. Hook. My apologies to Dr. Hook. *** New BioShock Trailer... Check out that snappy tune! *** Surrogate's MySpace I got the record today... " Love Is for the Rich"and it's every bit as good as I was hoping it would be. Expect to hear more soon... Great stuff. *** Intro The intro music to the show is "Do They Know It's Halloween?" by the North American Halloween Prevention Initative, which actually is a chairity song for UNICEF. You can't buy it on iTunes anymore, but you can still get it from the official website. North American Halloween Prevention Initiative - Do They Know It's Hallowe'en Outro Buy it on As Cities Burn - Come Now Sleep *** Hover over those Amazon links... NEAT! - Don Save This Page

Episode 13 - The Home Coming

Our latest episode is out now, with a review of The Home Coming. This film, from Billy Graham's World Wide Pictures, stars Jeremey Peter Johnson as Jordy Rembrandt, a tough guy who's a new student in a small-town school. Directed by Rocky Lane(Power Play, 2nd Unit on D2: The Mighty Ducks) and written by John Shepard(Power Play, producer of The Ultimate Gift and Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius). The film co-stars Aimee Garcia(George Lopez) and G. Riley Mills.

I didn't mention it in the show, but I just got back from Louisana, where I was doing service in the National Guard. While there, my friend broke his foot in an accident involving a train. He could have been hurt much worse, but he still needs prayers.

News Links:

Disney Bans smoking, Focus on the Family applauds(The Christian Post via CT Movies).

Son of Man footage on Myspace.(via Bible Films Blog)

"Official" Narnia set report.(via CT Movies & Peter Chattaway's Looking Closer blog).

Report about Indiana Jones from the San Diego Comic Con.(via Ain't It Cool News)

Show Notes:

You can see the Kirk Cameron video that Don mentions here, as well as this rebuttal.

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If you want to know who Rocky LONG is, check out his own Wikipedia entry.

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The Prairie Home Companion is one of the best venues for understated humor and folk music on the radio. It may be an acquired taste.

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Wesscott Marketing is apparently the place to go for all things Christian merchandise related. They're a big distributor or something. I really don't know what they do. Imports and exports probably. They're leaders in latex. - Don

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Gaither Homecoming, some kind of Christian version of A Mighty Wind, only real.

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Mungles on the Movies are Don's favorite self-made movie critics.

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New Release Tuesday mentioned us recently. They're a cool site, you should check them out.


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Blue Like Jazz, one of the more popular Christian books recently. Steve Taylor is adapting it into a movie, somehow.
Blue Like Jazz on Amazon.

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Amy Grant's The Collection, is available on Amazon, but not iTunes. It is a really great 80's pop album. Shes does have some great stuff on , as individual tracks.

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A track off the last Okkervil River record... One that I especially dug, and it's a single. So I guess that makes me a soccer mom.



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The whole sad tale of the VeggieTales is told, by Phil Vischer himself, here.

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Click here learn more about cornholing, which I swear is safe for work and families.

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The album by Spoon that Don plugged is called "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga." Don't ask me. I've never heard of it either.


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Our intro music is "Bad Rap" by Steve Taylor, available on .

You can find I Want To Be A Clone on Amazon Marketplace.

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Our outro music is Don't Say Nothing by Fine China, also on

You can also find You Make Me Hate Music on Amazon Marketplace. For $1.50!!! What a steal!

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Did we miss anything?

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Direct Download: Episode 13 The Home Coming
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