Trektember: Season 3 Episode List
Want to know what Trektember is? Click here for an explanation. Here are the episodes that we’ll be reviewing for Trektember 2018, as well as the authors! If you want to see the reviews from a different season of Trektember,…
Trektember: Season 3 Preview
If you just want to see the episode list, click here. Welcome to the third season of Trektember! Over the past two years, we’ve taken the month of September to dive deep into Star Trek through the lens of Scripture.…
Review| Skate Kitchen
Great films are able to transcend their genre and the context that the protagonist’s story is unfolding in. Great storytelling gives viewers a sense of connection and resonance, even if they aren’t a part of that subculture or have anything…
Review| The Happytime Murders
Brian Henson, son of the late Jim Henson and producer/director of Happytime Murders, seeks to expand upon his father’s legacy of telling adult stories through the medium of puppetry. As much as the second-generation puppeteer is fairly confident the creator of…
How the Academy is Missing the Mark
It’s been a couple of weeks since The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced it would be adding an additional category to its award ceremony and people are still debating and rolling their eyes about the decision. So…
Of The 1920s
The 1920s holds a special place within cinema history as German Expressionism makes its way onto American shores. Known for its angular, almost surreal, settings and its narrative gloom, German Expressionism gave silent cinema some of the most fantastical and…
#180 – BlacKkKlansman and Dealing With Our History
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: We talk for a very long time about how good a movie BlacKkKlansman is and what it can teach us about our past and our present. How do movies about racism…
Reel World: Rewind #029 – Pontypool
On this episode of Reel World: Rewind… A cerebral zombie movie taking place at a small, local radio station in rural Canada about the zombie-like infection being spread by language has perhaps been the most difficult episode ever to record…
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) & The Mist (2007)
Despite their Stephen King pedigrees and the guiding hand of writer-director Frank Darabont, few films initially appear to have as little in common as The Shawshank Redemption and The Mist. Released in 1994 to critical acclaim but little fanfare, Shawshank…
Review| Never Goin' Back
Adulting is hard. Jessie (Camila Morrone) and Angela (Maia Mitchell) put that into sharp focus in their small Texas town as they coast from one high to the next and try to get by working at their diner jobs. Of…