Review| Reel Redemption
Reel Redemption is a visual essay by film critic and academic Tyler Smith about the conflicts between Hollywood and Christianity. He has a solid grasp on how we got to where we are, and in just under an hour, with…
Wow Signal: Finding Hope in the Stars
The old joke around the search for alien life goes, “‘is there intelligent life out there?’ I don’t even know if there’s intelligent life down here on Earth!” Nyuck nyuck, rimshot, slide whistle, tip your waitresses, try the veal. It…
Review| Parallel Love: The Story of a Band Called Luxury
There is a whole generation of people (myself included) that were raised on CCM (Contemporary Christian Music) artists, most of which was a mere husk in form of popular music that was created at the same time. For every Michael…
Review| Social Animals (2018)
The internet and its wave of social media platforms have provided a new breeding ground for documentaries. When information about everything is available with a click at any time, questions of interpersonal communication, ethics, privacy, among other concerns present themselves…
The Unearthing of the Invisible Face of Horror: Horror Noire (2019)
There is something strangely poetic about watching a horror documentary while laying in a chair having plasma separated from one’s own blood. It makes it doubly poetic watching a documentary about the history of African Americans in horror film. Blood,…
#178 – Won’t You Be My Neighbor and the Imago Dei
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: We look at one of the most talked about documentaries of the year, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? This look at Fred Rogers life tries to show the man who had…
Review| Won't You Be My Neighbor?: A Snappy New Imago Dei
Won’t You Be My Neighbor is a story about a singular, unique man. He was vilified by some as coddling or a trifle; he was held up by others to be, as his son put it, the “second Christ”; but…
Review| I’ll Push You
A month ago we featured Hunter Van Wagenen’s interview with the stars and a director of this film. Today, we’re happy to publish his review of I’ll Push You. Imagine hiking the Camino de Santiago, a 500-mile pilgrimage across Spain. Imagine…
Review| 13 Minutes to the Moon and an Echo of a Greater Mission
Most episodes of 13 Minutes to the Moon begin with the tell-tale staticky buzz-whine of Apollo’s radio background noise and the iconic high-pitched beep of a Quindar tone. Like the Apollo 11 mission itself, the podcast is deliberate, well-planned, and…
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