of the 1990s
While the 80s might have had the shine and mythology of excess given to it from the rearview mirror of history, the 90s, by most appearances, lived in the full realization of that mythology. The thing that distinguished it from…
Game of Thrones S8E2 – A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Now I know what you’re probably thinking. Game of Thrones just gave us one of the best, most feel good and rewarding episodes of the entire series, so surely, it’s about to dash those dreams next week with death and…
Reflections on a Sense of the Self: Toy Story (1995) and Us (2019)
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.” – Erik Erikson, Identity, Youth, and Crisis One of the first films that comes to mind when thinking of explorations of…
Reel World: Rewind #036 – Southland Tales
On this episode of Reel World: Rewind… Once again, Blake strikes with a challenging and heady movie. Richard Kelly’s widely criticized second feature film Southland Tales suffered similar marketing obstacles to his first feature film, the classic film Donnie Darko. Consequentially,…
Game of Thrones S8E1 – Winterfell
The end has begun in Westeros with a grand but ultimately thin welcome back for patient Thrones fans. Our first episode of the final season may have felt like trying to drink a milkshake and getting a strawberry stuck in…
Review| Pet Sematary (2019)
Filmic adaptations of books are tricky, and they will never be universally loved by all because of the various subjective attachments we have to the books. Yet, from the birth of cinema, that has never stopped Hollywood from making them.…
#199 – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and Subverting Our Own Vanity
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: That’s right, we’re going to squeeze in one more 2018 movie before completely moving on to 2019. It’s ok though because we get to talk about one of our favorite movies…
The Unearthing of Class in a “Class-less” Society: The Red Scare of Jordan Peele’s Us
“And the Lord said to me, ‘A conspiracy has been found among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers who refused to hear My words, and they have gone after other gods to…
Reel World: Rewind #035 – Beetlejuice
On this episode of Reel World: Rewind… It’s showtime! With the release of Tim Burton’s Disney’s live-action Dumbo, it seemed very appropriate to return to Tim Burton and actor Michael Keaton’s first collaboration, 1988’s Beetlejuice. Co-host Josh Crabb is joined by…