#187 – Halloween and Halloween (2018)
On this special Halloween episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: It’s that time of year again where we get to do a little something special and celebrate Halloween through the lens of cinema. This year we had an incredibly…
Of The 1940s
Mere years after the introduction of sound technology into film, Hollywood would nearly nose dive in 1941 and then reach the heights of its most profitable year in the 40s in 1946. These years are telling for the casual historian.…
The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game: Halloween (2018)
“Everyday brings change, and the world puts on a new face Sudden things rearrange, and this whole world seems like a new place Oh yeah, secretly I been tailing you Like a fox that prays on a rabbit Had to…
Review| Hold the Dark
Director Jeremy Saulnier’s growing filmography should be getting much more attention. He surprised everyone with the low-fi action thriller Blue Ruin in 2013. Eschewing typical conventions within the genre, Saulnier’s barely proficient yet galvanized everyman protagonist Dwight, played by friend and collaborator…
#186 – First Man and A Matter of Perspective
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: We continue our dive into the start of awards season films with director Damien Chazelle’s La La Land follow-up, First Man. This intense look at the life of Neil Armstrong feels wholly…
Review| Mandy
A Latin proverb states, “revenge is a confession of pain.” While there is little evidence to find the origin of this quote or prove it is actually Latin, the axiom is true enough apart from its suspicious attribution. Revenge is…
Them! (1954) & Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
“We may be witnesses to a Biblical prophecy come true ― ‘And there shall be destruction and darkness come upon creation, and the beasts shall reign over the earth.’” ― Dr. Harold Medford, Them! The 1954 horror film Them! from…
Review| Venom
An otherworldly being inhabiting a human has been an oft-treaded conceit in the science fiction genre. The characters affected experience an assortment of interactions likened to symbiotic relationships found in the natural world. From the parasitic possession of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Parasite…
Review| A Star Is Born
I have a confession to make. I haven’t seen any of the previous A Star Is Born iterations. I watched the 2018 version in a vacuum and without the context of the previous versions (five to be exact). Whether that…
Reel World: Rewind #031 – Addams Family Values
On this episode of Reel World: Rewind… Leave it to Josh to pick a non-scary movie for October, but he tries his best by picking a horror-adjacent movie in the 1993 Barry Sonnenfeld movie, Addams Family Values. Enlisting the help…