A Theology of The Force Awakens Trailer
So it has been around 18 hours and, if you are like us, it has been enough time for you to have watched the trailer a couple dozen times. As I sat and watched and geeked out and reflected, a…
Top 5 Oscar Winners of 1985
Last week, we looked at big name directors with movies released in 1985. This week, our attention turns to five movies that could be considered prestige movies. These are the movies that featured some of the best performers and biggest…
In Theaters April 23rd, 2015
Since we’re already focused on NEXT week and the opening of Avengers: Age of Ultron, this week could be considered a bit of a filler week leading up to every single theater in the world playing AoU on every important screen. However,…
Top 5 Movies Featuring Artificial Intelligence
Opening this week in wide release is the new Sci-Fi movie Ex Machina starring Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, and Alicia Vikander as the sentient A.I. female, Ava. This is the directorial debut of Alex Garland, the writer of 28 Days Later… and one…
Conviction and Witness
A couple weeks ago I shared an article from Reel Spirituality on an approach to reviewing movies that is not criticizing, but is approaching a movie as an exploration and us as the movie-goer as an explorer. This article was…
#012 – Ender’s End Game
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: On this episode we are going to be taking apart the recent film, Ender’s Game. The film is based on the 1985 military science-fiction novel by Orson Scott Card. Set in Earth’s…