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Three Superb Films to Watch This Easter Weekend
They fit the holiday perfectly
It’s Easter weekend, and for many the Good Friday holiday makes it a three-day weekend. You’ll surely have some free time during that 72-hour stretch, even after going to church for the first time since Christmas, watching small children battle each other for plastic eggs, and eating too much glazed ham at Sunday dinner, and there’s no better way to use that free time than watching movies. And since it’s still at least a semi-religious holiday, it makes sense to watch a film in keeping with the holiday.
I bet that right now the phrase “Christian film” is running through your mind, with all the negative connotations that come with it. I get it; a “good” Christian film is usually like “good” Christian rock music: as mythical as the Easter Bunny.
But not every Christian film is a two-hour sermon, the Left Behind series, or God Is Not Dead, But I Don’t Feel All That Great. There are, thankfully, some notable exceptions to the dreck that always seems to star Kevin Sorbo or Corbin Bernsen (so far removed from Hercules and Psych, respectively, as to be unrecognizable). The following three films tell a timeless story in an entertaining way and can be enjoyed by viewers of any faith or no faith this Easter.
