So what does God look like to you? A few weeks ago, we posed this question, promising that the best 10 responses will win copies of “Evan Almighty on DVD.” More than 300 of you submitted entries, and here are our top picks. In no particular order, the winners are: God has no face and…

Oscar-nominee Ryan Gosling plays another challenging and off-beat role: A young, socially awkward man who is in love with… a life-sized doll he buys off the Internet. Yet somehow, “Lars” ends up as a sweet story about community, faith, and love. Go figure. Watch two clips here, and then read our interview with Gosling and…

The title of Sidney Lumet’s latest is lifted from the old Irish saying “may you be in heaven thirty minutes before the devil knows you’re dead,” the entirety of which is typed across the screen as a disguised Ethan Hawke watches a bullet-riddled robber fly through the doors of his parents’ jewelry store, set smack…

As I’ve mentioned in Idol Chatter before, the novelist Tom Perrotta was a college writing teacher of mine and had a major influence on me professionally, so I’ve avoided reviewing his work in the media. But in his latest novel, “The Abstinence Teacher,” Perrotta takes the story to Beliefnet’s turf by portraying what happens when…

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