Watch What You Want (We Need Junk Food Stories)
After a few years of relative quietude from the highbrows, becalmed by the pandemic’s rocky release schedule, the elitist film critics began speaking up again last summer. They have a lot to say about movie quality.
Top 5 Self-Directed Actors
Acting is hard. Directing is hard. It would seem the combination of the two would be near impossible. However, throughout the long and storied history of cinema, there have been handfuls of great actors who have tried their hand at…
Fizz’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Post-Summer Films
I often take the time to plan the Reel World Theology Podcast many, many months in advance. What this tends to do is get me naturally excited about some upcoming films. I don’t want to take away from the really…
Reviewing the Classics | The King of Kings
Cecil B. DeMille’s depiction of the life of Christ is “a reverent spectacle.” The silent film embodies both piety and theatrics, and features a tranquil Christ in the midst of a melodramatic world. DeMille’s nearly 3-hour epic features scenes and…
Fizz’s Top 5 Most Quotable Movies
I have to start this out with some honesty. This list won’t be everyone’s list. I tried to do a true “Top 5 Most Quotable,” but found that I could not find any agreement between various websites, friends, or, even…
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…
Stop Criticizing, Start Exploring
I’ve never went on one of those multi-stringed Twitter rants before. However, there is a first time for anything and I have officially entered that not-so-exclusive club. The straw that broke the camel’s back was an article at an unnamed…
Wednesday Web Link – The Cathedral and the Movie Theater
The movie theater has a lot in common with the cathedral/church gathering space. Sunday morning and nights at the movies are some of the only places left in modern culture where we can get people to show up, sit down,…
Wednesday Web Link – The Stick-to-itiveness of Movie Watching
It’s always helpful to sit back and think about why you do something and how you are doing something. When watching movies it is so easy to get caught up in not thinking about them, especially since a lot of…
Top 5 Movie Battles
You played it when you were a kid, and you imagine it just like the kids in I Declare War did (btw if you have not seen that movie I highly recommend it). Despite my tendencies toward being a totally…