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Iron Man: Full of Irony and Things That Go Boom

Superhero Summer has officially begun with lots of booms, and, if Iron Man is any indication, it looks like it’s going to be a better season than 2007’s Summer of the Three-quels. Iron Man is a wryly funny entry into the superhero genre that manages to raise moral questions without being pretentious about them.

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Is TMI making us D-U-M-B?

One of the constant laments here at CAPC is the loss of creativity in the Christian sphere. Really, it’s a funny problem. The church is flung far and wide across ethnicities, cultures, geography, and political spheres. Is it really so hard to find a few creative Christians?
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• Swearing in Movies Christians who count swearing in movies. Why give other sinful things a free pass? Why just pick on swearing? Shouldn’t we also count things like idolatry? (Comments: 0)
• Coming soon to theaters: Bioshock, brought to you by the guy who directed the Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy! (Comments: 1)
• Beliefnet has compiled this list of Reality TV's Ten Most Memorable Christians. (Though, actually, since they include the Duggar family, it's more like a Top Twenty. Why, oh why, does the family with 17 kids have to be from Arkansas? And why does the father have to be named "Jim-Bob"?) (Comments: 3)
• Douglas Wilson claims that, "Super Mario Galaxy is, at its core, a game about Rosalina – or at least her worldview," and that it "tackles the drama of human tragedy." (Comments: 0)
• Rolling Stone Goes Undercover with the Christian Fringe (Comments: 0)
• Making Meaning in a Meaningless World: Five Ways that Won’t Work (Comments: 0)
• Trouble ahead for science? A Brown University professor reviews Ben Stein's movie "Expelled". (Comments: 0)
• Satan admits his hand in the latest installment of GTA. (Comments: 0)
• Ministering to American Idols...Literally A pastor’s wife and “American Idol” fanatic (she voted 1,200 times for Katharine McPhee on the night of the 2006 finale), Bellesi launched aiministryresource.com on Feb. 14, the day after the top 24 contestants for the current season were announced. The purpose: To offer finalists’ families spiritual encouragement and help with lodging and transportation as their children sing for votes and a shot at a life-changing record deal. (Comments: 0)
• Destructoid finds trances of morality in Grand Theft Auto IV. Caution--some foul language. (Comments: 0)
• Pop Goes Christianity Slate Magazine discusses evangelicals' deeply neurotic relationship with popular culture. (Comments: 0)
• Christianity Today Movies interviews director Andrew Adamson about Prince Caspian. Susan gets to use her bow and arrows--hurrah! (Comments: 0)
• Coming soon to theaters: Iron Man 2, Thor, and Captain America. (Comments: 0)
• Do Americans have the right to TV? Popular Mechanics gives some disturbing figures on how much the US government has spent on publicizing the switch from analog to digital TV. (Comments: 2)
• 'Iron Man' makes $100.7 million over the weekend: "That is the second-best opening ever for a non-sequel after Sony and Marvel’s 'Spider-Man,' which opened to $114.8 million on the same weekend in 2002, and the 10th best opening of all time, according to Rentrak." (Comments: 0)