The Mandalorian Chapter 4: No Escape from Sanctuary
If the second episode of The Mandalorian felt like A New Hope, this Star Wars take on Seven Samurai felt like an homage to Return of the Jedi. From the lush setting to the saturated color palette and music that…
The Mandalorian Chapter 3: Family Battle
Okay, so everybody’s calling him “Mando” now. No, no, I’m not bitter, Greef Carga. I just want the record to show that I called him that way back in Chapter 1. And honestly, if this is the sort of story…
The Mandalorian Chapter 2: Supernatural Infant
The second episode of The Mandalorian did not disappoint, but again it required a second viewing to really give the show its due. I was a bit overwhelmed in this episode at how much like A New Hope it felt;…
The Mandalorian Chapter 1: Rebuilding a People
It took until my second viewing of The Mandalorian’s “Chapter One” for me to take a good critical look at the show. My internal eleven-year-old, long since resigned to never again having an experience like Shadows of the Empire, finally…
The Pains of Being Human: The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018) & The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)
We all live with the weight of our life’s choices. Some of those choices we seem to forget about by moving on with our lives. Others linger with us for a long time, perhaps even the rest of our lives.…
Reel World: Rewind #040 – Jaws
On this episode of Reel World: Rewind… Closing out the summer on a high note, Reel World staffer Josh Crabb invites on his old podcast pal, Blaine Grimes, to discuss a movie that holds incredible significance for Blaine, Steven Spielberg’s…
#206 – Spider-Man: Far From Home and Absolute True Facts
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: Spider-man: Far From Home brings to a close the latest phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Does it truly bring closure? Does it pick up on the incredible success of Homecoming?…
Review| Crawl (2019)
The horror genre, since its inception, has busied itself with social commentary from macro to micro. Standouts have been made across that spectrum. It is one of the many flexible components of genre-filmmaking: the ideas driving the films can be…
Reel World: Rewind #039 – Apollo 13
On this episode of Reel World: Rewind… In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, RWT staff members Josh Crabb and David Atwell talk about one of the only movies eligible for Rewind dramatizing an Apollo…