Reviewing the Classics| Spellbound: Psychology, Sexism, and Reversing the Roles
Woah. I’m no stranger to director Alfred Hitchcock’s work, and I have seen Spellbound a few times before this (though it’s been a while), but this movie blew my mind. Not only does it use surrealist ideas and imagery to…
Streaming Weekly March 2017 4.0
Spring has sprung and you have reason to be outside enjoying the longer days and warmer weather. So it makes perfect sense for you to stay inside and watch one of our recommendations from our fine contributors. Maybe meet somewhere…
Oh! The Horror… | Of Breaking and Entering
To me it was about trying to ground the movie as much as possible so that the audience would believe that world, so we tried to find a house that your brother could have lived in and your father could…
Stay Woke and Don’t Scream: Get Out’s Subversion of White Horror Narratives
*There are spoilers ahead* “Finally, much of horror’s history has been about the removal of Blacks from the genre. Blacks have been rendered invisible by way of Whites in blackface, through a deprecation of Black culture without (and absent a…
Review| A Cure for Wellness, and the New Gothic
Gothic stories are a personal favorite of mine, from classic novels to their film renditions and beyond. They are often melancholy tales of loss, sadness, madness, and love. They also feature violent, insane characters obsessed with something or someone…
Oh! The Horror… | of a Very Scary ‘Black Christmas’
Before ‘The Shape’ ever stepped foot back in Haddonfield, Illinois and Jill Johnson was warned that the terrifying phone calls were coming from inside the house, there was ‘Billy,’ the perverted killer in the sorority house attic who wreaked terror…
Reviewing the Classics| Citizen Kane
Orson Welles’ mythic masterpiece about an American tycoon’s rise and fall feels remarkably relevant for America in 2016. Despite only winning one Oscar out of its nine nominations and being panned at the box office, Citizen Kane is arguably the…
Streaming Weekly December 2016 1.0
It might be cold outside, but our contributors are stoking the fires of your streaming queues with three recommendations to kick off December. If you already saw all the new movies in theaters or just need a night in, check…
#117 – Arrival and Considering God’s Perspective
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: We get to talk about the most original sci-fi film we’ve seen this year. Not only do we all love original sci-fi, but this film gives us so much to discuss–…
Oh! The Horror… | Of Making It Through The Film
Blake gets very introspective in this weeks edition of “Oh! The Horror…” as he examines 2010’s “A Serbian Film”. What is it that might drive a person to watch something gratuitously cruel and nasty? Blake dives in head first and concludes, among other things, that “Good film persuades; it makes us feel its truth and meaning. It does not force feed it down our throats.”