Top 5 Tuesday – Top 5 Actor Performances
Our four-week Top 5 of the best performances of 2014 winds down with the hardest of the categories. Naturally, many of the actors we highlight in our Top 5 have movies that are up for awards at the Oscars this…
Kingsman and Good Ol’ Fashioned Megalomaniacs
I didn’t grow up in the 60’s or 70’s, but I still grew up loving and acting out James Bond movies. My dad was and is a huge fan of the old Sean Connery and Roger Moore Bond movies. We…
Netflix Your Weekend – Joe
Inevitably, any movie starring Nicolas Cage is going to be a sizable target with a giant bullseye shaped like Cage’s head. The visage of Cage, or the mere mention of his name, has become an internet meme in its own…
In Theaters Thursday – 02-12-15
Valentine’s Day weekend can be one of the strangest and most perilous of opening weekends. As to be expected, there are a lot of movies that focus on love and relationships, but it is made very strange by some very…
Spider-Man, The Avengers and the “Perfect Team”
It’s already been a busy year for superhero news. The most recent development is that Spider-Man, a member of the comic book version of the Avengers for about the past ten years, will finally be able to join Earth’s Mightiest…
Wednesday Web Link – The Cathedral and the Movie Theater
The movie theater has a lot in common with the cathedral/church gathering space. Sunday morning and nights at the movies are some of the only places left in modern culture where we can get people to show up, sit down,…
Top 5 Tuesday – Top 5 Actress Performances
The Oscars is just a meager 12 days away, and this week we are moving from the supporting roles to the leading roles. This may be the toughest category to nail down this year, as the performances by leading women…
#051 – American Sniper and Missing the Mark
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: We are setting our sights on American Sniper, the latest film from Clint Eastwood. This film has done extremely well at the box office and with awards officials by staying king…
Review| Jupiter Ascending
The Wachowskis go big and ambitious once again with a beautiful and intergalactic universe of dynasties, androids, aliens and monsters. While not as explicitly religious and symbolic as their previous work, most notably The Matrix, they still are at least dip…
Netflix Your Weekend – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Thomas Alfredson’s 2011 adaptation of John le Carre’s 1974 book, and the British TV series starring Alec Guiness of the same name, is not what you would expect from a spy movie. A “normal” spy movie, or more maybe more…