Five Stunning Truths that will Change Your Life (IF you believe them!)
“Clickbait” is a form of writing that begs for your attention. Even though it’s largely hated by the internet community for being cryptic at best and lascivious at worst, clickbait keeps coming up because it works. Despite the fact we know…
Stop Criticizing, Start Exploring
I’ve never went on one of those multi-stringed Twitter rants before. However, there is a first time for anything and I have officially entered that not-so-exclusive club. The straw that broke the camel’s back was an article at an unnamed…
Top 5 Tuesday – Top 5 Oscar Winners
You’re not going to find any griping here. Neil Patrick Harris reminded us during the opening song of the 87th Academy Awards that, “movies may not show real life, but they’ll show you what life really means.” Apart from the opinions,…
Netflix Your Weekend – The Overnighters
The initial intrigue to Jesse Moss’ The Overnighters was not a familiarity with his previous material. His filmography is fairly well-known, with documentary work like Full Battle Rattle that won awards at SXSW and was nominated for an Emmy, as well as…
Review| The Grand Budapest Hotel: We’re Brothers
“You see, there are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. Indeed that’s what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant… oh, f*** it.” –M. Gustave In one week, I…
In Theaters Thursday – 2-19-15
For this weekend’s look at new movies, we’re going back in time for a follow-up to the surprisingly funny and clever Hot Tub Time Machine. There is Disney’s first release of 2015 in an impressive slate of movies (Strange Magic doesn’t count)…
#052 – Whiplash and The Cost of Perfection
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: Our panel takes a look at another Best Picture candidate, Whiplash. Starring Miles Teller and JK Simmons, Whiplash explores themes of perfection and achievement in an incredibly intense and jazzy way.…
Frozen and True Myth
Spoiler Alert: This post assumes you’ve seen Disney’s Frozen. You have been warned. Clickbait sites love to compare popular movies to other popular culture. “Avatar is the same as Pocahontas!,” they scream out on Facebook and Twitter. “The Lion King is…
Wednesday Web Link – Cinemagogue Tackles ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’
We might be preaching to the choir a little bit on this Wednesday Web Link, considering myself and Fizz are highly influenced and were inspired by the work of James Harleman and his website, Cinemagogue. James was a formative influence…
Who-ology: S01E07 The Long Game
“The Long Game,” written by Russell T Davies and directed by Brian Grant, takes the Doctor, Rose, and newly-acquired companion Adam (episode 6: Dalek) to Satellite 5, a space station in the year 200,000 that broadcasts news across the entire…