Review| First Man
Going to space is hard. As last week’s Soyuz rocket failure proves, even a well-proven rocket with a spotless half-century track record can still remind us that getting to space isn’t any easier than it was for Neil Armstrong. It…
#185 – A Star Is Born and Assigning Blame
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: After a trailer that brought cheers (and even possibly tears), it felt like the excitement level for A Star Is Born could not be any higher. We talk about our expectations…
#184 – Hereditary and the Complicated Reality of Trauma
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: We kick off October with a movie that has been heralded as the scariest movie of 2018, Hereditary. Due to the nature of its release, it took a while for this…
of the 1930s
“Horror films served as a kind of populist surrealism, rearranging the human body and its processes, blurring the boundaries between Homo sapiens and other species, responding uneasily to new and almost incomprehensible developments in science and the anxious challenges they…
A Pretentious & Self-Aware Review of Assassination Nation
*This review is simply a hot take a mere hour after viewing this film, but I think this is a film I’ll be contemplating for quite a while. Hopefully I’ll write something later on after I’ve let the film sit…
Trektember: The Wrath of Khan | Classics
If it had been the only Star Trek thing ever, we would simply regard Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan as a great movie, like The Adventures of Robin Hood, Seven Samurai, Raiders of the Lost Ark, or The Dark…
The King’s Speech (2010) & Rope (1948)
There’s nothing like a trusted mentor and teacher to change your life for the better. That’s the idea behind one of my favorite movies, The King’s Speech (2010), based on a true story from the life of King George VI.…
#183 – The Predator and The Value of Simple Story
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: We talk about a movie that we were all much more excited for before actually seeing it. Predator has become an all-time classic action movie but the movies that have come…
Review| The Predator
Way back at the beginning of 2018, Shane Black’s The Predator made my list of the most anticipated movies of 2018. The original Predator is one of my favorite 80’s action movies, not even just ones helmed by AH-nuld. Combining the stealthy, monster-esque vibe of…
Reel World: Rewind #030 – UHF
On this episode of Reel World: Rewind… We’ve got it all on this episode as we sit down to talk about UHF! Of all the career accomplishments of the legendary comedic musician Weird Al Yankovic, his 1988 feature-length movie may…