Game of Thrones S8E4 – The Last of the Starks
The fight against the dead is over, the living have defeated them, and the realm no longer has to fear slipping into eternal darkness. As we learned in this week’s episode, the implications of this significant victory against evil undead…
Beautiful and Necessary: The Empowerment of “That Scene” at the end of Avengers: Endgame
I am now four days out from my first and, so far, only viewing of Avengers: Endgame and I have thought about it every single day. My mind keeps drifting back to it, mulling it over, remembering moments that moved…
Losing the Endgame: How the Avengers Deal with Failure
Last year’s Avengers: Infinity War was quite a unique film. Part cliffhanger, part villain-as-protagonist character piece; the movie had all the makings of standard superhero epic, and assembled the most powerful characters that really matter to most of the moviegoing…
Game of Thrones S8E3 – The Long Night
Now that we’ve emerged from the darkness (both literally and figuratively) of “The Long Night” and the great Battle for Winterfell, lets collect ourselves and look forward. Because one spin around the internet of opinions and you’ll see reactions to…
#200 – 200th Episode Special: A Navel-Gazing Masterclass
On this VERY special, epic episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: We cross the 200th episode line! Well, assuming you’re not counting mini-sodes or interviews or, well, anything else special we’ve done, here we are! We thought it was…
of the 1990s
While the 80s might have had the shine and mythology of excess given to it from the rearview mirror of history, the 90s, by most appearances, lived in the full realization of that mythology. The thing that distinguished it from…
Game of Thrones S8E2 – A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Now I know what you’re probably thinking. Game of Thrones just gave us one of the best, most feel good and rewarding episodes of the entire series, so surely, it’s about to dash those dreams next week with death and…
Reflections on a Sense of the Self: Toy Story (1995) and Us (2019)
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.” – Erik Erikson, Identity, Youth, and Crisis One of the first films that comes to mind when thinking of explorations of…
Reel World: Rewind #036 – Southland Tales
On this episode of Reel World: Rewind… Once again, Blake strikes with a challenging and heady movie. Richard Kelly’s widely criticized second feature film Southland Tales suffered similar marketing obstacles to his first feature film, the classic film Donnie Darko. Consequentially,…
Game of Thrones S8E1 – Winterfell
The end has begun in Westeros with a grand but ultimately thin welcome back for patient Thrones fans. Our first episode of the final season may have felt like trying to drink a milkshake and getting a strawberry stuck in…