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…
Review| Alita: Battle Angel and an Expected Savior
Alita: Battle Angel is a totally awesome mess. It’s got an unbelievably good lead in the heretofore-mostly-unknown Rosa Salazar, whose character should stand pretty much as deep in the Uncanny Valley as you can get, but somehow manages to be…
Film as Confession: Taste of Cherry (1997) and Sex, Lies, & Videotape (1989)
“Film is truth, 24 times a second.” –Jean Luc-Godard We live in a world of displacement. Through the efforts of cultural, societal, and technological change, we move and breathe day after day as those forced towards awareness. Being in the…
Reel World: Rewind #034 – MirrorMask
On this episode of Reel World: Rewind… Josh is joined by Reel World staff member David Atwell to talk about the 2005 movie, MirrorMask. A UK-based movie produced by Jim Henson Studios, MirrorMask was written by renowned comic book writer and…
The LEGO Movie 2 and Building Wholeness
The release of The LEGO Movie in February of 2014 surprised everyone, including all of us at Reel World Theology. Having recently just got started and only releasing a couple shows a month, Fizz, Mark, and Joe Darnell went back to…
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,…
#195 – Into the Spider-Verse and Positive Motivation
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: Even though we may have been confused as to why there was another version of Spider-Man coming to our cinemas (especially an animated one), we, and audiences everywhere, quickly found out…
Split Decision: Glass (2019)
Sometimes our writers don’t agree. Most of the time it’s hilarious, all of the time it’s entertaining. And when those disagreements are so intractable, so irreconcilable, we put them in the ring and let them sort it out with verbal…
#194 – The Rider and Masking Our Brokenness
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: We’re back with another Patreon sponsored episode. This time, Patron, and friend of the show, Dave Courtney asked us to chat about The Rider, an independent film that has garnered a…
of the 1960s
As we continue into the 1960s, we see, once again, another dramatic shift in the film industry. Theater palaces are being forgotten in the wake of the creation of multiplexes. As history proves time and time again, capitalism stokes the…