Wednesday Web Link – The Cathedral and the Movie Theater
The movie theater has a lot in common with the cathedral/church gathering space. Sunday morning and nights at the movies are some of the only places left in modern culture where we can get people to show up, sit down,…
Review| Jupiter Ascending
The Wachowskis go big and ambitious once again with a beautiful and intergalactic universe of dynasties, androids, aliens and monsters. While not as explicitly religious and symbolic as their previous work, most notably The Matrix, they still are at least dip…
Netflix Your Weekend – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Thomas Alfredson’s 2011 adaptation of John le Carre’s 1974 book, and the British TV series starring Alec Guiness of the same name, is not what you would expect from a spy movie. A “normal” spy movie, or more maybe more…
In Theaters Thursday – 2-05-15
This week brings a bit of a change with all but one of this weeks movies releasing nationwide in the theaters. Now is a time of year where you may see smaller films sneak into a wider release for distribution,…
Wednesday Web Link – The Stick-to-itiveness of Movie Watching
It’s always helpful to sit back and think about why you do something and how you are doing something. When watching movies it is so easy to get caught up in not thinking about them, especially since a lot of…
Top 5 Tuesday – Top 5 Supporting Actress Performances
Another week closer to the Oscars, another set of prestigious Reel World Theology performance awards to hand out. This week on our Top 5 we’re looking at the Top 5 performances by actresses’ in a supporting role. There were some…
Netflix Your Weekend – Chef
One of my favorite classes I had in college, and one of my favorites in any level of schooling, was my communications class focused on media and journalism. Not only did I enjoy the writing and speaking, two things I…
In Theaters Thursday – 1-29-15
There is not much opening in the theaters this weekend worth seeing, so how about a picture of Chewbacca riding a giant squirrel fighting Nazis? OPENING IN WIDE RELEASE Black or White – Kevin Costner is starting to get on…
Wednesday Web Link – Cinema’s Dismal Look at The American Dream
James Truslow Adams said of the “American Dream”, a set of ethos laid out by the Declaration of Independence, “[L]ife should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or achievement.”…
Top 5 Tuesday – Top 5 Supporting Actor Performances
We’re about four weeks out from the 87th Academy Awards, and we’re all very excited here at Reel World Theology. After spending two weeks ago counting down each of our Top 10 movies of 2014 and spending last Tuesday looking…