Game of Thrones: S07E01 Dragonstone
After a few sips of the finest Arbor gold and a great deal of bodies hitting the floor, the opening credits roll and the dead come marching out of the cold, lifeless north. Winter is here. What follows these opening…
Who-ology – S10E12 The Doctor Falls
The Doctor is dead. Long live the Doctor. Well, sort of. At the end of season 10 we’ve got a Doctor hanging on for one more ride, and a show we’ve gotten to know for over a decade about to…
Who·ology – S10E10 The Eaters of Light
So, that’s it. The Eaters of Light is the last episode of the Twelfth Doctor’s run that has a self-contained storyline. It was a solid entry, not without its holes, and one of the better of the current season. But…
Review| Alien: Covenant
In late October of last year, I did what many joke and pride themselves about: binge an entire TV series on Netflix in a week. With a new season just released, complete with teaser images and episode descriptions that were…
Review| Free Fire
There are those action films that manage to kill thousands without the audience acknowledging any of their deaths. Think the back end of the Die Hard franchise or just about any Michael Bay film. The lives get lost in the…
Quick Hits from CUFF | 78/52, Dave Made a Maze, Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present
These capsule reviews are part of an ongoing series covering films appearing in the 2017 Calgary Underground Film Festival, published simultaneously with www.danielmelvilljones.com. For a guide to this year’s CUFF, click here. For full reviews on Reel World Theology of…
Review| Some Freaks
Some Freaks is an astonishing debut that cuts deep, shattering open the high school drama of the misfits falling in love narrative to reveal a longing for human connection. This review is part of an ongoing series covering films appearing…
Ferocious, Fearful, and Tenacious Hounds of Love
Australian Ben Young’s debut film, Hounds of Love, is a sordid, intense feature of survival in 1980’s suburban Perth. Starring Ashleigh Cummings as Vicky Malone, a young, teenage schoolgirl abducted by a deranged, serial killer couple (Emma Booth and Stephen Curry),…
Who-ology| S03E03 Gridlock
This episode has long been one of my favorites, certainly of season 3, possibly of all Doctor Who. There are so many threads worth following in this thematically rich story: kidnapping, drug addiction, terrible consequences of the human propensity towards excess, repentance and…
Review| The Case for Christ
There’s a movement taking place in American culture that is truly significant from a worldview perspective. Relativistic phrases such as, “That’s true for you but not for me!” or “That’s just your interpretation!” are steadily becoming quotations of the past…