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The Judas Project (1990) TEASER Apr 09, 2023

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This 90's "modern day" fantasy retelling of the life of Jesus is a classic example of the VHS era of Christian films that live in the collective memory of millennial audiences. THE JUDAS PROJECT has that classic, washed out, dreamy, white "glow" effect throughout its VHS transfer, evoking a wholesome nostalgia, but it contrasts that safe feeling with a particularly brutal crucifixion scene, featuring body horror special effects that push the film's MPAA rating to PG-13. When a mysterious, magical man named Jesse stuns the world with a series of miracles, including raising the dead, an evil shadow government begins to take notice of his power. As Jesse's story unfolds, we, the Christian audience of THE JUDAS PROJECT, begin to realize that Jesse is an analogue for Jesus, right down to the disciples he takes and the wonders he demonstrates to them through his "transfiguration" on an idyllic mountainside. The film is an ambitious and relatively grandiose attempt at a contemporary parable, considering its relatively small budget, but it has some major flaws — mainly, plot intrigue that goes nowhere (a sexy Russian spy who appears briefly and never returns) and a confusing series of leaps in between Biblical and modern language. Sometimes characters speak like the King James Bible, but sometimes they speak normally. Sometimes the script switches Biblical names like "Jesus" to "Jesse", yet Jesse's disciples including Thomas and Peter keep their exact same names for some reason. Still, THE JUDAS PROJECT is a compelling experience, if nothing else for the wave of Sunday School nostalgia it will evoke in its millennial viewers, and for the enormous amount of campy original songs written and performed for the film by writer/director/producer James H Barden.

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Amazing Ape (2016) feat. Black Dresses Apr 02, 2023

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Ape-ril Fool's! A confident and unyielding propaganda film wrapped in an unassuming package, AMAZING APE uses talking chimps and political intrigue to teach the world how eating a completely raw food diet and doing yoga can reverse the effects of powerful diseases such as terminal cancer, rendering the medical establishment completely obsolete. This is the first and only film by the director/producer who goes by the mononym Juliano — a chef-turned-filmmaker with a star clientele, specializing in raw vegan food, whose obsession with diet borders on religious. Juliano's mystical worldview, where eating raw honey can literally cure cancer, comes to life in his film as the young protagonist Albert reverses his terminal illness using dietary guidelines he learns from a special chimpanzee named Simon. Simon is the descendent of the first chimp to fly a spacecraft, and he's cared for in a secret military zoo by beautiful blonde scientist Riley. When Simon the chimp is purchased and transferred to an evil pharmaceutical lab that delights in torturing its animal subjects, Albert must convince his own mother Miranda, a sadistic torturer of chimps, to embrace the raw lifestyle and respect chimpanzees as honorary members of the human race. There are almost too many incredible moments in AMAZING APE to discuss, so we called in Rook and Devi of noise pop duo Black Dresses to help us platform Simon's raw food diet and bring about the change in cultural consciousness known as "The Shift". We're honored to host these talented musicians as they make their podcasting debut.

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Nun Nancy (2021) feat. Marina Kittaka TEASER Mar 26, 2023

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A nun goes undercover in the mean streets of Baltimore to bring the word to the lost souls of The Gold Club, a strip club with an infamous "champagne room" that hides the secret of a prostitution ring. Director Jason Campbell, who also made one of our favorite recent films THE MAN WHO WENT TO HEAVEN, pulls no punches in this character drama, but gives us plenty of comic relief along the way. We follow Nancy as she is called by the Lord to Google the phrase "YouTube how to bartend", and we laugh with her as she laughs alone while watching tutorials. We conspire with her as she quickly changes into her habit before entering the convent late for Bible study after a long night secretly working in the club. We also share her frustration at a world that seems fallen beyond repair — is the work of a solitary nun enough to change society? Or is it merely a drop of bitters in an ocean of soda water? Our friend Marina Kittaka, one half of game design team Analgesic Productions (Anodyne, Even the Ocean, Sephonie) joins us in our Los Angeles studio to watch this fascinating piece by one of the more promising of the currently active faith-based filmmakers.

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Civil War Saint (2022) feat. Brian Kamerer Mar 19, 2023

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Ashley Hays Wright and David Owen Wright have become our favorite power couple of DIY Christian filmmaking. Together with their three daughters, they have produced over 20 feature films, some of which we've covered previously on our podcast: HALLOWEEN HERO, HALLOWEEN CANDYMARE, CHRISTMAS ZOMBIES, and THE EXORCISM IN AMARILLO. Although we've only scratched the surface of their vast catalog, we thought we had begun to fully understand these compelling artists and the reasons they create. We were wrong. We were tipped off to some stunning revelations about the Wright family's past, assembled through several years' worth of local news reports from various small towns. It turns out that both of the Wrights had separately worked as police chiefs, despite having limited or no police training, and both were separately fired from their positions under various controversies. David was charged with impersonating an officer, and people who knew him allege he made implausible claims about his work that seemed more like a movie than reality. Arrest warrants were evaded as the family began their nomadic journey together around remote areas of the United States while being called by God to start a church. It's an exciting story, and it's only endeared them more to us as artists — we can't help but wonder if they know when the movie ends. Our longtime friend Brian Kamerer, a prolific novelist and podcaster behind the audio art project Books By Brian, joins us as we introduce him to the first family of faith-based filmmaking, and tells us about his upcoming debut feature film.

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A Brand New Kitchen (2019) TEASER Mar 12, 2023

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This gripping family drama about a middle class Catholic family and its patriarch, the Kitchen King, shows the difficult choices that one must make in leading their life according to Biblical principles. The Kitchen King is protagonist Peter Landingham's business moniker. He sees his duty in life as "serving the great American middle class" by installing perfect kitchens, which in his eyes are the heart of the home. He has many folk theories about how the kitchen can symbolize the state of the relationship between a husband and wife. But Peter's own perfect family life is thrown into shambles when his former high school sweetheart, now married to a rich man, commissions an extravagant kitchen from The King that is obviously an attempt to rekindle an old flame. Peter struggles with the temptation to cheat on his wife, Claire, especially after she reveals a bombshell secret of her own that threatens her relationship with Peter and their son, Peter Jr. The drama never stops, but A BRAND NEW KITCHEN also features full original musical numbers, and bizarre montages illustrating how Peter Jr.'s courtship of his girlfriend incestually mirrors the past relationship his father had with his own high school sweetheart. Truly, any lover of religious films would want to convert to Catholicism after letting the Kitchen King remodel your heart.

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Leap: Rise of the Beast (2011) Mar 05, 2023

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The sequel to the beloved Christian parkour film LEAP is an ambitious jump up in every way, from production quality to knowledge of biblical prophecy, allowing its cast of fit teens to hit the antichrist where it hurts him the most — his evil headquarters in the Vatican City. It's the contrast between the film's DIY action thriller tropes and the wordiness of its anti-Catholic messaging that makes LEAP: RISE OF THE BEAST one of the most fascinating Christian films we've ever watched. Director Chris Tempel was in his early to mid 20s when he made this film, and it's truly remarkable what he was able to achieve on such a small budget and with self-taught filmmaking skills. He's clearly obsessed with Hollywood action blockbusters, but not nearly as obsessed as he is with Bible study. LEAP: RISE OF THE BEAST uses Tempel's own conclusions he drew from self-guided Bible studies to transmit lofty ideas of how mainstream Christianity gets the Bible wrong. Tempel frequently blames the Catholics for using their influence throughout history to knowingly subvert Biblical teachings, convincing the average Christian to take up incorrect habits such as going to church on Sundays instead of Saturdays. In fact, Tempel goes as far as to argue that the end times prophecy of the Book of Revelations uses the metaphor of the antichrist and the beast to represent the anti-Pope and the Vatican City. LEAP: RISE OF THE BEAST is a delightful film for being so precocious and yet so confident in its message that most Christians don't understand the basic facts of their own religion, and that a gaggle of backflipping teens are our only hope in the fight against the evil Catholics.

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Leap (2010) TEASER Feb 26, 2023

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This Christian parkour movie is full of rapture prophecy scripture painstakingly lifted from the King James Version of the Bible, and DIY death-defying stunts by a cast of Russian teen freerunners. LEAP is a low budget, backyard Christian film with a cult following. An upload of the film has over a million views on YouTube, which is apt because parkour itself is an internet video-based phenomenon, emerging in popularity around the time of LEAP's release. Director/writer Chris Tempel must have had the vision to see that young people would be open to hearing about the Bible in between compilations of cool teens doing parkour stunts, so he created this film that basically alternates parkour montages and extended Bible study sequences. Interestingly, the Bible study scenes are among the most conservative we've ever encountered in a Christian film. In one scene, the youth pastor character explicitly states that AIDS is God's earthly punishment for the crimes of homosexuality and adultery. Most Protestant films we encounter, especially ones aimed at teens, don't take on so heavy of a message — LEAP, however, is as bold as the dangerous dives over bike racks and picnic tables it depicts. The film even sets itself up for the biggest leap of all — an ambitious sequel (LEAP: RISE OF THE BEAST) that takes on the entire religion of Catholicism and its sick plot to induce the New World Order. We'll be covering the sequel next week on our show!

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Elijah's Secret (2016) Feb 19, 2023

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We're so excited to add a new genre of Christian film to our repertoire: anti-Catholic movies made by Protestants. What's really going on in that weird little city called the Vatican? Brothers Casey and Wayne Harmberg allege that a cabal of Jesuit priests are working together to infiltrate the ranks of innocent churches to spread their insidious doctrine of universalism. They will also upset the economic balance of every country, creating the need for a one world currency that will usher in, of course, the New World Order we've come to know and love. Adding to the intrigue of ELIJAH'S SECRET is its marvelous visual style. CGI effects allow Jesuit priest Elijah to levitate and create protective magical force fields through his mastery of the occult arts. Barely any costumes are used, meaning scenes depicting the highest levels of military intelligence prominently feature characters such as an ancient man wearing a Beatles hoodie. The Harmberg brothers open ELIJAH'S SECRET with title cards urging viewers to embrace the controversy and to watch with an open mind. We did exactly that, and we will never look at the world quite the same way ever again.

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SPECIAL REPORT: Satanic Panic... Reloaded TEASER Feb 12, 2023

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A new wave of satanic influence in media prompts Ash and Julian to conduct an emergency meeting. Sam Smith and Kim Petras's recent televised performance of their Grammy award-winning collaboration "Unholy" leaves nothing to the imagination, as the two cavort onstage in plastic red devil horns while singing about marital infidelity (a subject never before covered in the medium of the pop song .) Meanwhile, in the virtual realm, insidious video game designers are playing god of their own hand-sculpted worlds by decorating them with explicit references to satanism and the illuminati. Truly, it seems that our elites have gotten so cocky that they can't help but "let the mask[s] slip" — accidentally revealing their secret plots to dethrone God and cannibalize the innocent by leaving a series of elaborate clues meant to only be understood by the smartest people in the world. Fortunately for us, these geniuses have made a series of YouTube videos explaining what's going on. What a relief!

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Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist (2023) Feb 05, 2023

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We headed to theaters for a rare irl Christian movie screening! The latest reboot of the LEFT BEHIND franchise is directed by none other than Kevin Sorbo, an actor who has become Christian movie royalty due to his work in the genre over the past two decades. He stars in this brand new film alongside his wife Sam and his eldest son Braeden, reminiscent of the 2017 film LET THERE BE LIGHT, which also featured the entire Sorbo clan in one of our all-time favorite Christian films due its outrageous and fun plot about defeating terrorist group Isis with the power of God's love. We went into LEFT BEHIND: RISE OF THE ANTICHRIST with high expectations, which ended up being a terrible idea. Unfortunately, in our opinion, this new film represents how COVID broke everyone's brains and changed the entire course of evangelical Christians' taste in entertainment. It seems like a steady diet of YouTube conspiracy videos has influenced what could have been a very exciting story about the rapture that ended up being a boring and lifeless film with lots of long scenes of people sitting down and talking about the New World Order. Still, LEFT BEHIND: RISE OF THE ANTICHRIST was a fascinating look at the current flavor of evangelical Christian filmmaking, even if it sacrificed entertainment for information.

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