#204 – Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Mixed Messaging
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: Another special PATRON sponsored episode. Another of our esteemed Patreon sponsors, Hunter and Stephie Van Wagenen, have selected one monster of a film, Godzilla: King of the Monsters. The 2014 Godzilla…
Of The 1900s
“And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” –Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5 Once the 1900s began, technological advances in cameras and projectors were…
Why I Love Godzilla (and You Can Too!)
Godzilla is a gargantuan, semi-intelligent, indestructible, nuclear-powered dinosaur whose spine lights up when he breathes atomic fire. Forgetting all the cultural iconic status built up around Godzilla and other kaiju franchises, sit with that first sentence for a moment. If…
Oh! The Horror… | of Displacing God
James Whale brought to the screen what is considered the most dynamic film in the first cycle of Universal monster pictures of the 1930s, 1931’s Frankenstein. Though diverging from Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, in three significant ways–making…
#077 – Crimson Peak and Understanding Our Monsters
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: Another special Halloween episode! This time we talk about a film marketed as a stereotypical horror film but what we get is something quite different. Our panel discusses if it really…
In Theaters April 16th, 2015
These couple weeks leading up to the beginning of May can be categorized as, “Weekends left until Age of Ultron comes out”. While I will leave you to count the weeks we have left, some of this week’s new releases…