Streaming Weekly January 2017 1.0
Happy New Year everyone! Our first Streaming Weekly of 2017 is an exciting launching pad for the many great things coming this year from us and in movies. January is also the perfect time to stay indoors, stay warm (it’s…
Streaming Weekly December 2016 2.0
You may or may not be headed out to the theaters this weekend. It may be freezing cold where you live (like it is here in Wisconsin) or you may just need an excuse to unwind after a long week.…
Review| Trolls and Joyful Exuberance
Retro is now the cool, marketable, and profitable thing to do in kid’s movies. Not only have we been subject to countless reboots of classic franchises in the adult genre–so we share it with our kids and create a whole…
Review| Storks
Warner Animation Group is off to a pretty good start. Relatively new since being developed by Warner Bros. producer Jeff Robinov in 2013 as an animation screenplay think tank, the first movie to debut from their efforts was the out-of-nowhere…
#057 – Cinderella and Overcoming With Kindness
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: We definitely had our doubts about Disney making a live-action version of this age-old tale, but instead of giving it the reinterpretation or revisionist treatment, they simply gave us the story…
#027 – Maleficent and Familiar Feminism
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast:
We take a look at Angelina Jolie’s return to the live-action big screen in Maleficent. A reinterpretation of the Disney classic, Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent tries to show that there are two sides to every story and sometimes “evil” may not be as evil as once thought. JR Forasteros and Laura Fissel help explain why the critics found their problems but we all found ways to enjoy the movie anyway– and take a lot away from this film. By leaving no doubts about its feminist underpinnings, the film turns out to be one of the most conversation starting films of the year. We also get into many, many, tangents including some of our least favorite films and why we would consider seeing the new Transformers film (seriously!)…
#004 – Not-So-Despicable Gru
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: Gather the minions! This episode we tackle the animated movie Despicable Me 2. Which, by default, means that we also talk about Despicable Me. Which also means we talk about the…
How to Train Community
How to Train Your Dragon Directed By Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders Rated PG Hiccup: This is Berk. It snows nine months of the year, and hails the other three. Any food that grows here is tough and tasteless. The people…