Review| A Wrinkle in Time, and Sanitizing the Darkness
As a filmmaker myself, I completely understand that not everything is translatable from page to screen. Filmmakers are readers just like anyone else. Their interpretations or viewpoint on a story will look very different from each of our own. We…
#164 – Darkest Hour and Heroic Historical Fiction
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: It seems hard to believe that we could talk about Darkest Hour without talking about how it and Dunkirk tell a similar tale from very different perspectives. So, of course we…
Review| Bomb City
Amarillo, Texas is not one of those places that finds much representation within cinematic landscapes. We are vaguely West Texas in name only so many of us who live in these flatlands look on films like There Will Be Blood,…
The Cinephile: Planet of the Apes (1968)
David Lichty examines the ape within us all in the latest edition of The Cinephile!
Black Mirror S3E1: Nosedive
Charlie Brooker, Black Mirror’s writer and executive producer, knows how important it is to grab an audience’s attention from the start. We saw this when we first tackled the show in Season 4 with USS Callister. We’ll see it again…
City of Stars: La La Land
Check out this “lost article!” The grass is always greener in La La Land, last year’s Oscar darling.
RCVG: Theme Video – Excommunication
Check out Ryan’s first “Shadow of the Colossus” theme video- and make sure you subscribe on YouTube so you can see each new episode early!
#163 – Black Panther and Image Bearing Perspectives
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: What will sure be one of the hottest movies of 2018 is already sitting at our feet. Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther is impressive for more reasons than we can count, but…
Anger Begets Anger; I Read it on a Bookmark
We’re welcoming CC Earnhart to the site with this story of justice and revenge from “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri!” Welcome, CC!
Review| Mute
“What is Mute? I’ve never heard of it.” You may be saying to yourself. Well, dear friend, in 2009 a small sci-fi film called Moon was released. Directed by up-and-coming director Duncan Jones (also did Source Code) and staring everyone’s…