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Big Love, the HBO drama about a polygamous family living in Sandy, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, is rumoured to be airing an episode next week (15 March) that will feature scenes and events from the mainstream LDS Temple ceremony. ?¢‚Ǩ?ìWe researched it out the wazoo,?¢‚Ǩ¬ù says [executive producer Mark] Olsen, who along [...]

I visited a different ward last Sunday while on vacation. The elders quorum lesson was on the law of chastity. The discussion quickly turned to the portrayal of chastity (or the lack of it ) in popular media, specifically movies. Three points that were brought up that I felt needed addressing were as follows: 1. [...]

An email is circulating among LDS circles regarding the HBO series, Big Love. The email is typical social action stuff (i.e. write to the station, complain about the show, take a stand, yadda, yadda, yadda). A couple of points are made in the letter I thought I would briefly comment on here: Parodies of beliefs [...]

In response to the recent HBO film Big Love, the Church issued a statement that said, in part, the following: Big Love, like so much other television programming, is essentially lazy and indulgent entertainment that does nothing for our society and will never nourish great minds. Parents who are casual about their viewing habits ought [...]

Given that some comments in a previous post established that buying edited films is still supporting questionable material, can the same thing be said about edited music (or even films) that were downloaded over the Internet? Is it better morally to have downloaded-but-edited music (if one’s jurisdiction considers it legal) than to have purchased-but-edited music?

I once had a discussion with someone a couple of years ago about the movie The Breakfast Club. This individual stated that the film was rated R and I did not believe it. I could have sworn it was rated lower. So I did a bit of sleuthing and I discovered something interesting. This individual [...]

March marks five years since Excel Entertainment released God?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s Army in limited theatres in the United States. Certainly in the past five years a lot has happened in the LDS film industry, but are we any better off? Has LDS film become respected? When we saw Other Side of Heaven Charly in the theatre someone [...]