Review| The Shallows
An offshore facility that contains genetically enhanced sharks meant for amnesia research, sharks in tornados, giant sharks, freshwater sharks, sharks in the snow, and robot sharks in space (probably): Since Jaws swept audiences away in the summer of 1975, shark…
Review| The Conjuring 2
The Conjuring 2 opened to a massively successful first weekend: 75% on RottenTomatoes and $40 million dollars, the biggest horror film opening since the first installment in 2013 (and the biggest June horror film opening ever). The film is quite good…
Review| What We Become (Sorgenfri)
Earlier this year, we saw Norwegian director Roar Uthaug take a well-worn disaster move formula and transform it into something truly special in The Wave; and now, making his feature-length directorial debut, Danish writer and director Bo Mikkelsen accomplishes a…
Review| Green Room
Jeremy Saulnier’s last film, 2013’s Blue Ruin, was a vengeance flick with a flare for equal amounts of comedy and tragedy. It’s characters, narrative and outcomes actually felt satisfyingly realistic. None of the clean-cut, glorified vengeful murder set pieces found…
Review| The Invitation
As a more reserved and introverted person, parties and get-togethers are naturally unsettling for me; so Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation, a tense, smart film about a man who attends a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife and her new lover,…
Review| The Wave (Bølgen)
The Wave (Bølgen), Norway’s first disaster flick—and the country’s official submission to the Foreign Language Film category of the 88th Academy Awards—is a film that is intimately familiar with the well-worn tropes of its genre, a film that, instead of…
Review| 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
It’s cliché to say a movie transported you into the story, but I can honestly say that was my experience with 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. From the very beginning, this movie is something different. 13 Hours is…
#088 – The Revenant and the Fear of Death
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: The Revenant is a film that seems almost impossible to live up to the hype. Alejandro Iñárritu’s follow-up film to his Academy Award-winning film, Birdman (including two incredible actors in Tom…
Review| The Revenant
The Revenant, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s followup to his critically acclaimed Birdman (2014), was one of the most talked about films of the past year. It was on numerous “Most Anticipated Movies of 2015” lists, and if you follow movie news all, you…
#084 – Die Hard and Christmas Movie Ingredients
On this CHRISTMAS! episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: Merry Christmas from the gang here at Reel World Theology! As usual, we roll out a special Christmas episode highlighting one of our favorite Christmas films. This time, it is…