Ray Tintori is a 24-year-old director from Brooklyn. “Death to the Tinman” was his undergraduate thesis film for Wesleyan University’s Film Studies program. The film premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival where it received an Honorable Mention for Short Filmmaking. It also played in the South by Southwest Film Festival and New York Film Festival, among others. His previous film “Jettison Your Loved Ones” premiered at the 2006 Slamdance Film Festival. Mr. Tintori currently resides in New York where he is writing his next film, as well as writing scripts for other people’s major motion pictures, and directing music videos for pop groups like MGMT.
Death to the Tinman is an adaptation of the origin story of the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz series, in which the Tin Man is transformed from a human lumberjack to a metal man without a heart. Tintori transported the story’s basic premise to a surreal, rural 1940s South, replacing Oz magic with evangelical mysticism; pastors, congregations, and the Rapture replace flying monkeys and witches melting upon contact with water.
Have you ever wanted to play Guitar Hero, but were worried that the deviant riffs of Boston would bring out your inner homosexual Islamic-Mexican? Have no fears, for Guitar Praise is here:
This not only exists, it was advertised on PBH. And, being as someone who is interested on why a Christian video game would be on my site, I decided to check it out. Not only is this possibly the lamest game ever created, it costs $99 dollars. That’s how much it costs to split an escort! Then again, check out some of these oh so convincing personal reviews:
This is a great product. I waited so long because I refused to let the secular guitar hero in my house and it was worth the wait. I was hooked the first night. I sure hope and will be believing that you will be coming out with a Praise Rock Band. Keep up the great work and may God continue to bless your ministry!!!
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Digital Praise team, God bless you guys for coming up with a Christian version of guitar hero. I’m the youth minister at the First Baptist Church of Fulton in Alabama. This game is going to be huge! With all of the anti-God, seductive, dark songs out there, especially in guitar hero, I was overwhelmed with excitement to hear of Guitar Praise. I’m trying to teach these youth The Word, how to boldly share Jesus with people, and how to live holy lives in the midst of opposition from the world. Thank you so much for this incredible opportunity to put into their hands a fun yet Christ centered game that edifies our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!
Secular faggot Muslim-loving minorities – 0, White Christians – 1
By the way, what exactly was Sarah Palin running for — Vice President of the United States of America or treasurer of a special-ed fifth grade class? Judging by her inability to respond to criticism other than call her detractors ‘jerks’, I’m going with the latter.
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