Black Mirror S3E2: Playtest
Back when I first began my expedition into Black Mirror, Season 3 was my launch point. The themes centering around technology and how it assists us in propagating our sinful nature certainly intrigued me, but I was equally impressed with…
Reel World: Rewind #025 – The Godfather: Part II
On this episode of Reel World: Rewind… With the Oscars now completed and a brand new Best Picture winner crowned, it got the Reel World: Rewind think-tank pondering some of the best picture winners of all-time. Consequently, the conversation will…
Reviewing the Classics| Rashomon
“A human life is so frail, as fleeting as the morning dew.” – the Priest, Rashomon “What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.” – James 4:14 It was fortunate…
#164 – Darkest Hour and Heroic Historical Fiction
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: It seems hard to believe that we could talk about Darkest Hour without talking about how it and Dunkirk tell a similar tale from very different perspectives. So, of course we…
Review| Bomb City
Amarillo, Texas is not one of those places that finds much representation within cinematic landscapes. We are vaguely West Texas in name only so many of us who live in these flatlands look on films like There Will Be Blood,…
Black Mirror S3E1: Nosedive
Charlie Brooker, Black Mirror’s writer and executive producer, knows how important it is to grab an audience’s attention from the start. We saw this when we first tackled the show in Season 4 with USS Callister. We’ll see it again…
Anger Begets Anger; I Read it on a Bookmark
We’re welcoming CC Earnhart to the site with this story of justice and revenge from “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri!” Welcome, CC!
Review| Annihilation
The dizzying journey of Annihilation begins with a look through a microscope at life at the cellular level. What follows is an even deeper exploration into what makes us human. Annihilation is expert filmmaking paced with just the right amount…
Review| Black Panther
A movie with as much hype as Black Panther needed young director Ryan Coogler to hit another home run. He had successfully launched his and Michael B. Jordan’s careers with his debut festival hit, Fruitvale Station, followed by the unlikely successful Rocky movies sequel, Creed.…
Black Mirror S4E6: Black Museum
Our journey into the fourth season of Black Mirror has one last stop to make – the anthology-within-an-anthology episode, Black Museum. Directed by Colm McCarthy, Black Museum tells a story about a museum of the digital macabre, its curator, and…