Championship Mercy in Win or Lose (2025)
Pixar has always been a master engineer of, as Roger Ebert calls films, “machines that generate empathy.” Starting from their earliest SIGGRAPH short films, even the few clunkers of the nearly 30 (count ’em!) films they’ve released drip with empathy.…
Releases, Returns, and Resurrections (ICYMI April 20, 2024)
“In Case You Missed It” is a roundup of the news and stories in faith, culture, and entertainment over the past week that you might have missed, with some context that we hope you’ll find thought-provoking or interesting. Welcome to…
The Disney and Jon Favreau Show, featuring Me (ICYMI April 13, 2024)
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Science Fiction, Science Fantasy, and Science Fact (ICYMI April 6, 2024)
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Freaky Friday news; plus, Swift Quakes, Hot Takes, and Remakes (ICYMI March 30, 2024)
“In Case You Missed It” is a roundup of the news and stories in faith, culture, and entertainment over the past week that you might have missed, with some context that we hope you’ll find thought-provoking or interesting. Our inaugural…
How to Ruin a Movie in 45 Minutes
I talked in my last article about the bedrock principle behind what Reel World Theology does: figuring out the core of a story, and pointing out the resonance (or the dissonance) with God’s story. But what is the core of…
A Tale of Two Heroines: Revisiting the Past with Gone with the Wind (1939) and The Wizard of Oz (1939)
In the year 1939, two blockbuster movies burst onto the big screen in brilliant technicolor, forever changing the face of American film: Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz. On the surface, the heroines of both films have…
Aliens Just Like Us: The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) & Under the Skin (2013)
“Every village and small country place is full of people who’ve just come and settled there without any ties to bring them. The big houses have been sold, and the cottages have been converted and changed. And people just come…
A Deluge of Dark Water(s): The Dark Waters of Dark Waters (1944), Dark Waters (1993), Dark Water (2002), and Dark Waters (2019)
When I was a child, I thought I was surrounded by bad guys. This is not a metaphor. I had the creeping suspicion that everyone I knew—my grandma, the dentist, the children’s pastor at my church, my pre-school teachers, everybody—was…
Review| Palindrome (2020)
Marcus Flemmings reached out to me after I reviewed his last film, Six Rounds, to view and review his newest film. If you follow my reviews, you might remember that I found Six Rounds to be effective conceptually with the…