For our 50th episode we took a look at religion’s role in cinema. We covered God on Trial, The Passion of the Christ, Rosemary’s Baby, Ben-Hur, The Mist and several more movies. Not to mention, we also discussed recent religious releases Noah, God’s Not Dead and Heaven is For Real.

For this week’s Potpourri section, we debated the merit in watching leaked Godzilla footage, analyzed Aaron Sorkin’s apology for The Newsroom and, finally, we discussed the failures of The Raid 2.

Thank you for downloading our 50th episode! We’ve got some great stuff planned for our next 50. And the 50 after that.

Runtime: 1:37:44 

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Timestamps

• Skip Intro – 00:44
• Reflecting on 50 Episodes – 01:02
• Religion in Movies – 04:47
• Matt on “God on Trial” – 06:05
• Tiny on “The Passion of the Christ” – 15:20
• Mike on “Rosemary’s Baby” – 24:53
• Matt on “Ben-Hur” – 31:08
• Tiny on “Keeping the Faith” – 39:47
• Mike on “Bruce Almighty” – 46:32
• Matt on “Noah” – 50:30
• Tiny on “The Believer” – 1:01:36
• Mike on “Dogma” & “Red State” – 1:06:03
• Matt on “God’s Not Dead” & “Heaven is For Real” – 1:10:19
• Matt on “The Mist” – 1:12:47
• Honorable Mention – Tiny on “Life of Brian” – 1:14:53

OV Potpourri – 1:15:54

• Tiny on “Godzilla” WonderCon Footage – 1:16:17
• Mike on “The Raid 2” – 1:19:50
• Matt on Aaron Sorkin’s Newsroom Apology – 1:26:41
• Matt on Danny Boyle being tapped for Steve Jobs Movie – 1:31:46 

Show Notes

• Music: Star Tissue – An Eclipse of Events –https://www.soundcloud.com/startissue
• The Obsessive Book Nerd: http://www.ObsessiveBookNerd.com
• The Secular Perspective Podcast:http://www.thesecularperspective.com

• Here’s the poor taste Passion of the Christ merchandise:http://www.sharethepassionofthechrist.com/jewelry.asp#nail
• Matt’s controversial God’s Not Dead review:http://obsessiveviewer.com/2014/03/31/reviewrant-gods-not-dead-the-most-offensive-movie-ive-ever-seen/
• The Secular Perspective – ‘God’s Not Dead’, A Response:http://thesecularperspective.com/2014/04/17/podcast-gods-not-dead-a-response/
• MovieGuys.org: Godzilla (2014) Pre-Review:http://www.movieguys.org/godzilla-2014-prereview/

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