Review| The Revenant
The Revenant, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s followup to his critically acclaimed Birdman (2014), was one of the most talked about films of the past year. It was on numerous “Most Anticipated Movies of 2015” lists, and if you follow movie news all, you…
#053 – Birdman and How We Ended Up Here
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: After many attempts, we finally are able to get a group together to talk about Birdman— now a winner of four Oscars, including Best Picture. Besides being a technically impressive movie,…
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,…
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…
Top 5 Tuesday – Top 5 Supporting Actress Performances
Another week closer to the Oscars, another set of prestigious Reel World Theology performance awards to hand out. This week on our Top 5 we’re looking at the Top 5 performances by actresses’ in a supporting role. There were some…
Top 5 Tuesday – Top 5 Supporting Actor Performances
We’re about four weeks out from the 87th Academy Awards, and we’re all very excited here at Reel World Theology. After spending two weeks ago counting down each of our Top 10 movies of 2014 and spending last Tuesday looking…
‘Birdman’: The Relevance of a Thing
Why am I writing this review? Does it mean something? Does it bear any weight on culture? Will it carry on into the ether of the future, and if so, for how long? Questioning the very form of artistic medium…