#055 – Chappie and The Science of the Soul
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: Everyone is quick to remind you of Neill Blomkamp’s first film, District 9. I think they have been doing this because of the letdown of Elysium and the sheer disappointment in…
In Theaters March 19th, 2015
Mark my words, this weekend will be another sensational weekend for Cinderella. It hauled in $70 million this past weekend and has been getting great reviews. Coming up against this Disney juggernaut is the second installment in the Divergent series, Insurgent, as well…
Re:View| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
I have often felt an ache that is hard to describe. You may have felt it yourself. It’s not physical, but emotional. Not painful per say, but rather, unquenchable. Throughout human history, many of the greatest writers and scholars have…
#RaceTogether
It seems like fads (like #TheDress) and jokes (like #RuinADateIn5Words) can be started, get a hashtag, trend on Twitter, make it into the Facebook sidebar, become a Buzzfeed listicle, then become a Wikipedia article and die all within about one infant sleep…
Top 5 YA Novel Adaptations
While everyone is sure to still be out in force this week to see Cinderella, the first of a batch of YA Novel adaptations (unless you count Jupiter Ascending as a YA movie) comes out this week Friday with the second part of the…
Netflix Your Weekend| Groundhog Day
How do you POSSIBLY recommend a movie you have an insane and biased obsession with? Not just that, but it stars a comedic icon that is worth watching even in terrible movies! AND the movie shares a title and date…
In Theaters March 12th 2015
After a strange weekend at the box office last week, this week’s releases are aiming big. One movie, you can probably guess which one, is redoing a famous and iconic movie from its past while the other is banking on…
Reasons My Son Is Crying
“Mommy and Daddy are gone, probably forever!” “I’m so hungry, and I’ll be hungry probably forever!” “My diaper is uncomfortable, probably…” you get the picture. Hearing him cry is heartbreaking; you can tell he’s just sure that it’ll never get better.
Conviction and Witness
A couple weeks ago I shared an article from Reel Spirituality on an approach to reviewing movies that is not criticizing, but is approaching a movie as an exploration and us as the movie-goer as an explorer. This article was…
Top 5 Cartoon to Live-Action Movies
Sure to be the first big money maker in 2015, Disney’s live-action adaptation of Cinderella hits theaters later this week. Following in the footsteps of Maleficent, Alice in Wonderland, and many of Disney’s older live-action movies, Cinderella is taking one of their…