A joint post from Matt Thurston and Clay Whipkey.

Sunstoners are an arts & culture loving bunch.  Throughout the years, whether in the pages of the Magazine, or from the podium at a Symposium, Sunstoners have repeatedly demonstrated that they only need the barest thread of a connection to Mormonism to launch into an animated paean about the virtues of this or that non-LDS movie, book, or song.  As such, we’ve created Sunstone Symposium sessions with lofty-sounding titles like, “Great Movies that Have Expanded My Religious World View.”  But who were we kidding?   Let’s face it – we just wanted an opportunity to talk about movies we thought were really cool.

So let’s drop the pretense, okay?  It’s Oscar Time, and we wanna talk movies.  Why should we force an artificial Mormon angle, like, um, the subtle way Avatar’s Pandorans resembled righteous Lamanites.  Gag.

Nope, we’re not going to apologize for our little off-topic jag; we’re not going to cloak our secular intentions – we’ve got plenty of time to get back to the “faith seeking understanding” thing.  Right now, we’re going to riff on movies.  Specifically, Matt and Clay are counting down the ten Academy Award Best Picture Nominees, from 10 to 1. Read the rest of this entry »

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