#061 – Daredevil and the Netflix Difference
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: Can MARVEL find success on the small screen like it has at the movies? Agents of SHIELD gave us hesitation, but Daredevil seems to be a game changer. With its own…
#058 – Furious 7 and Exactly What You’d Expect
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: Yes, believe it or not, Furious 7 is setting box office records and finding a way to make some grown men cry. I imagined the average critic would find this appalling but…
Review| The Grand Budapest Hotel: We’re Brothers
“You see, there are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. Indeed that’s what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant… oh, f*** it.” –M. Gustave In one week, I…
Griffin’s Top 10 of 2014
We kick off our week of staff Top 10 lists with Griffin Kale… 10. Inherent Vice I am gonna be honest– I haven’t seen this film, but I am reserving this spot because I feel pretty sure I am going…
#042 – Interstellar and the Best of Mankind
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: We take a look at the impressively large-scale sci-fi adventure of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. While well-documented as Nolan’s “most ambitious” project to date, it does remind us a lot of things…
#037 – Fight Club and Letting Our Stuff Define Us
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: On the cusp of its 15th (Yes! It’s been that long.) Anniversary, we break the first and second rule of Fight Club by, of course, talking about Fight Club. If you…
#033 – Guardians of the Galaxy and Unlikely Heroes
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: We talk about one of the biggest movies of the Summer, Guardians of the Galaxy. The tenth film in the MARVEL Cinematic Universe delivers possibly the most fun film to date.…
#029 – HTTYD2 and Developing Relationships
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: The first big animated movie of the Summer hits with How To Train Your Dragon 2. Most of the talk was if the sequel could live up to the universally loved…
#026 – X-Men and Days of Future Milestones
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast:
We celebrate the one year anniversary of the Reel World Theology Podcast with a huge panel discussing one of the biggest and most anticipated movies of the year, X-Men: Days of Future Past. The X-Men Universe has always been one of the most obvious stories to discuss the allegory of marginalization found, even today, in society. This film also gives us more developed characters than previous films and that has us wrestling with the themes of regret, fear, hope, and what it’s like to be faster than everyone else in the room…
#024 – Captain America And The Hero We Need
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast:
We finally get to experience the latest MARVEL Cinematic Universe offering, Captain America: The Winter Soldier. In the film, Captain America, the Black Widow and Sam Wilson (also known as The Falcon) join forces to uncover a conspiracy within SHIELD, while facing a mysterious assassin known as the Winter Soldier. For those who have seen the film, you know that this is probably a gross understatement of all the things going on in this movie. With all the underpinning of a top-notch Spy Thriller, this film is multi-layered and arguably the best offering that MARVEL has brought us to date. The narrative itself is dripping with post-9/11 allegory, while also tackling friendship, loyalty, selflessness, and what it means to be a good guy in a bad world.