Re:View| The One I Love
It’s hard to find a good love story these days. Modern choices either give us the sugary sweet Rom-Com or the overtly sexualized fantasy. Relationships don’t get a lot of truthful representation in films right now. But The One I…
Review | The Overnighters
A couple of weeks ago I got the chance to do an extended review of the very high quality documentary by Jess Moss, The Overnighters, over at Reel Thinking. For those of you who might have missed it, here is that review…
Review | It Follows
Like so many horror movies before it—Halloween, Friday the 13th, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Thing, to name a few—Robert David Mitchell’s It Follows is about sex, which, of course, has very specific connotations in the genre and is replete with…
Who-ology| S01E08 Father’s Day
In previous episode “The Long Game,” we watched as the Doctor rejected one-off companion Adam for taking self-serving advantage of the Doctor’s invitation into time and space. The episode ended with the Doctor openly praising Rose, declaring that he “only travels with…
Re:View| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
I have often felt an ache that is hard to describe. You may have felt it yourself. It’s not physical, but emotional. Not painful per say, but rather, unquenchable. Throughout human history, many of the greatest writers and scholars have…
#054 – Jupiter Ascending and Choose Your Own Theology
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: The Wachowski’s are often criticized for never living up to the potential they showed in The Matrix. While we do think that no other of their films has topped The Matrix,…
Review| The Grand Budapest Hotel: We’re Brothers
“You see, there are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. Indeed that’s what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant… oh, f*** it.” –M. Gustave In one week, I…
Who-ology: S01E07 The Long Game
“The Long Game,” written by Russell T Davies and directed by Brian Grant, takes the Doctor, Rose, and newly-acquired companion Adam (episode 6: Dalek) to Satellite 5, a space station in the year 200,000 that broadcasts news across the entire…
#048 – The Hobbit and the Battle of Excess
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: We talk about our final journey into Peter Jackson’s vision for Middle Earth with The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies. While bouncing around some thoughts on adaptation and expectation, we…
#047 – Into the Woods and Getting Your Wish
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: We are talking about Into the Woods— from stage to screen! Who can blame them for bringing another musical to life after the recent success of films like Les Miserables? This film…