Beautiful and Necessary: The Empowerment of “That Scene” at the end of Avengers: Endgame
I am now four days out from my first and, so far, only viewing of Avengers: Endgame and I have thought about it every single day. My mind keeps drifting back to it, mulling it over, remembering moments that moved…
Review| Instant Family
Instant Family is a comedy about a very serious thing: foster care. While the traumas that bring kids away from their birth families and into the foster system are no laughing matter, the messiness that results from imperfect people trying…
#156 – The Muppet Christmas Carol and a Fearful Conversion
On this SPECIAL Christmas episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: Merry Christmas from the Reel World Theology team to all of you out there! You voted, and we obliged. For Christmas we got you a brand new episode on…
#141 – War for the Planet of the Apes and Modern Biblical Narratives
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: The new Planet of the Apes trilogy has been one of the more surprisingly satisfying set of films over the past decade. What could have been yet another stale or bland…
Who-ology| S03E03 Gridlock
This episode has long been one of my favorites, certainly of season 3, possibly of all Doctor Who. There are so many threads worth following in this thematically rich story: kidnapping, drug addiction, terrible consequences of the human propensity towards excess, repentance and…
#130 – Beauty and the Beast and Remakes, Redemption, and Realizations
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: Disney has been on a hot streak with their live-action imaginings and remakes. Next up is Beauty and the Beast, one of the most beloved animated fairytales of all time. By…
Who-ology| S03E02 The Shakespeare Code
This episode is all about the power of words. And who better to feature in a language-focused story than the generally-lauded King of the Written Word, William Shakespeare! “By the pricking of my thumb / Something wicked this way comes”: Also appropriate is…
#122 – La La Land and Being an Artist
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: Fresh off winning seven (a record) Golden Globes, we talk about La La Land— a modern day musical. Brought to us by acclaimed Whiplash director Damien Chazelle, La La Land gives us…
Who-ology| S03E01 Smith and Jones
In this second episode of the new season, the Doctor finds himself in a hospital that is displaced to the moon by the Judoon. These rhino-looking alien creatures are “police for hire” who have taken the hospital to “neutral territory” in order to…