On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: Well, I guess we couldn’t have planned it better if we tried. A few weeks back we sat down to talk about Green Book not knowing how the Oscars would pan…

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Alita: Battle Angel is a totally awesome mess. It’s got an unbelievably good lead in the heretofore-mostly-unknown Rosa Salazar, whose character should stand pretty much as deep in the Uncanny Valley as you can get, but somehow manages to be…

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If the year of 2018 in film has a theme, that theme is definitely superheroes. Depending on your definition of “superhero,” there have been between seven and fifteen blockbusters in the genre over the last twelve months, with another one…

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Roger Ebert lamented in his 2005 review of Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, “‘Brokeback Mountain’ has been described as ‘a gay cowboy movie,’ which is a cruel simplification.” Ebert was pushing back at the prevailing opinion Lee’s movie was nothing more than…

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