The tear-jerker starring Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams could gross between $35 million and $40 million in its debut. "The Vow" is based on the true life story of a woman who lost her memory in a car accident and had to fall in love with her husband for the second time. The film has immense buzz online, where young women have for weeks been posting messages on Twitter and Facebook about the picture and its heartthrob star Tatum.

Christians may get a bit uncomfortable about taking about bad art. We don't want to christianize the problem. Bad art is bad art and that's all there is to it. But I want to take the risk and offer some theological reflection. Creativity and art are byproducts of men and women being created in the image of God. We have the power to create in a way that no other creature does. For sure, we don't have the power to create ex nihlio, but like God who created the world without becoming less of himself, we can "create culture" analogously.

Are you looking for wholesome, well acted, brilliantly filmed, lovely to listen to and watch movie viewing, then look no further! Weekly costume drama spotlights are the thing, my friends. This week, featured a slew of up and coming movies. See them highlighted here. And take a step back in time with me, why not?

Here are a few great deals I’ve found for Christian books for your Kindle (and other eReaders, too).

Perhaps the most attention-getting Super Bowl ad was Clint Eastwood’s paean to a resurgent auto industry in Detroit. The ad for Chrysler was intended to be a call for people of all ideological stripes to come together for the common good. But coming as it did at the dawn of a presidential election year and touching upon the highly controversial government bailout of automakers, it didn’t take long for that “fog, division, discord and blame” to assert itself.

What’s the best response to a bad writing day? Keep writing. If the goal of the day is to write 1000 words or even 250 words, don’t stop until you’re done. Even if what you write is terrible, terrible, terrible. And you had to become repetitive and write icky sentences to hit your goal.

Ever since the events of Genesis 3, we've hungered to return home. It's the impulse that sent explorers out to the ends of the earth. It's what Ponce de Leon looked for in Florida, what Cortez searched for amongst the Aztecs, and what sent Cheng Ho out from China into the Indian Ocean. It's called Paradise. Paradise is the backdrop for the Oscar-nominated movie The Descendants, a drama starring George Clooney that recently won the Golden Globe for best picture. It's a strangely gentle and beautiful story of tragedy, set amidst the dreamy backdrop of Hawaii.

Through the lens of the Holocaust, Andy Andrews examines how Hitler was able to get eleven million people to march to their deaths with so little resistance. In short, he lied to them. And, sadly, they believed it. This is a short book. You can literally read it in less than an hour. But don’t be fooled by it’s size. It’s a little book that could be the start of something very big. It’s a book you will want to read for yourself and then give to others.

Here at GetReligion, we analyze how well the media handle religion news. Last week was not one of those weeks that make me proud to be a journalist. Generally speaking, reporters and their editors provide a valuable service and deliver news day after day under never-ending deadlines. We rarely lack for things to analyze here, but last week was a particular low point. In covering Planned Parenthood’s PR campaign against Susan G. Komen, far too many reporters failed to do their jobs and instead engaged in advocacy on behalf of Planned Parenthood.

Apple's new publishing program, released just a few weeks ago, seemed like a really cool piece of software that would make it possible for people to create an iBook complete with all kinds of interactive functionality, with very little coding know-how. But because of some funky wording in the End User License Agreement, some people worried that Apple was claiming ownership to any content created using its software. Well, Apple updated the language of its EULA on Friday to make it clear that the content you create using iBooks Author is all yours.