The Vices, Virtue, and Imagination of Willy Wonka
We here at Redeeming Culture were devastated to learn of Gene Wilder’s passing this week. In honor of his life and work, we invite you to come with us on this quick tour through possibly his most well-known role. •…
Review| The Light Between Oceans
In terms of storytelling, director Derek Cainfrance is a novelist. The journey through The Light Between Oceans is careful, sometimes excruciating. It lingers over moments, drawing them open with beautiful images rather than words so that the shifts between them…
Streaming Weekly – BBC’s The 21st Century’s 100 Greatest Films – September 2016
This week, BBC released a list polling 177 critics from around the globe on the greatest films of the 21st century. While the list has certainly generated its share of sideways glances, the exciting part is how many conversations and…
Oh! The Horror… of ‘The Id’
It’s a fairly rote story of human reason and scientific progress within the Enlightenment. Educated men seeking to understand something about humanity or the natural world and beginning—and soon becoming obsessed—with experiments on others or, often, themselves. These stories end…
Tough Passages #8: Church Bikini (1 Corinthians 11:5)
In “Tough Passages,” we’re looking at the difficult verses in the Bible that are often brought up by secular people as reasons the Bible doesn’t make sense, and discovering how they actually reveal the character, love, and glory of God…
Reviewing the Classics| An Autumn Afternoon
Director Yasujiro Ozu may not be as well-known in the West as Akira Kurosawa – easily the most recognizable name in classic Japanese filmmaking – but his role in not only shaping the cinema of his own nation but also…
Top 5 Mel Gibson Movies
In a long and storied career, Mel Gibson has been an integral part of movies since he and George Miller worked together on 1979’s Mad Max. Gibson became an out-and-out star and arguably became an A-List celebrity. That is until he became…
Reel World Rewind #007 – The Rocketeer
On this episode of Reel World Rewind: Blaine is joined by Mark Wingerter to talk about Disney’s The Rocketeer. They discuss what contemporary superhero flicks could stand to learn from this movie, as well as what it means to be a…
Review| Kubo and the Two Strings
Animated movies have been stagnant as of late. Since 2015’s Inside Out, which ended up as my favorite movie of last year, there have been over a dozen major releases from big name animation studios. While some smaller animation studios…
#107 – Stranger Things and the Radical Pursuit of a Loving God
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: After giving you an episode-by-episode breakdown of the hottest show of the Summer (maybe year?), we get our writers together to talk about Stranger Things at even greater length! There is…