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June 2015

June 29, 2015

SENSE8 and the Politics of Watching TV

The new Netflix series, Sense8 (by the Wachowski siblings) isn't a great series, but, set in the...

June 23, 2015

Killer Serials: ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, Season 3, Eps. 4-6

Tony and I are back with the second installment of Killer Serials and a look...

June 22, 2015

True Detective, “The Western Book of the Dead” Post Mortem

Given the ever-improving nature of television dramas, it's difficult to write confidently about a series...

June 20, 2015

Is the Soul Gendered?

I’ve noticed recently that when you post an article on Facebook, the all-knowing Newsfeed will...

June 16, 2015

KILLER SERIALS: Orange is the New Black, Season 3, Eps. 1-3

Good friend, theologian, and author Tony Jones and I are kicking off a new blog...

June 15, 2015

Cross+Roads Faith and Film Renewal: Review of “Louder Than Bombs”

Louder Than Bombs (directed by Joachim Trier) is an American-Norwegian film about a family still coming...

June 10, 2015

ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL: Or Why We Should Celebrate the Rise of the Nones

A few weeks ago, the Pew Research Center released their latest study on America's changing religious...

June 01, 2015

Grief, Revenge, and Other Ghosts of the Past in Netflix’s BLOODLINE

With so much good original Netflix content, you'd be forgiven for bailing on Bloodline after...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

The Art of Forgetting Fossils: A Review of Sufjan Stevens’ ‘Carrie and Lowell’

Benjamin Griffin is back. Now a resident of that hipster paradise of Austin, TX, he...

May 26, 2015

Cross+Roads Faith and Film Renewal: “Aloft” Review

The old adage about desperate times calling for desperate measures is at the center of Aloft (written and...

May 21, 2015

Cross Roads Faith And Film Renewal: Cannes Review of “Filosofi Kopi”

For some people, coffee is simply a carrier of caffeine that fuels a dulled mind and...

May 19, 2015

‘Montage of Heck’: A Gospel of Kurt Cobain

Last year I got a chance to see and review Seattle’s Experience Music Project’s exhibit...

May 12, 2015

Cross Roads: Faith and Renewal, Getting Lost in Cannes

Upon my first full day in the town of Cannes, France, I was reminded of...

May 11, 2015

The Multiple Meanings of “Pride”

The British coal miner’s strike of 1984-85 has been fodder for several small but scrappy...

April 2015

April 29, 2015

Cross Roads: Faith and Film Renewal, Tribeca Overview

Faith and film pilgrim and new Pop Theology contributor Kenny Dickson gives us an overview...

April 28, 2015

Cross Roads: Faith and Film Renewal, Day 1

We're excited to welcome a new contributor to Pop Theology. A good friend and colleague,...

April 20, 2015

Raging Devil: DAREDEVIL and the Failure of Imagination

Posts have been sparse on Pop Theology over the last few months. Richard and I...

April 15, 2015

Movie Review: Ex Machina

Alex Garland's Ex Machina, his first as writer and director, proves that you don't need eight-figure budgets to...

April 03, 2015

‘Metalhead’ and the Community of Resurrection

Metalhead, an Icelandic film written and directed by Ragnar Bragason, premiered in fall...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

Movie Review: Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

Alex Gibney's latest film, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, feels more like a...

March 30, 2015

Book Review: DID GOD KILL JESUS?

I've got a Godfather 3 type relationship with the church. Just when I think I'm...

March 05, 2015

Timbuktu

The recent Oscar-nominated foreign language film, Timbuktu, is the most important film of the decade. I...

February 2015

February 04, 2015

On Mardi Gras with the Mystic Krewe of Apollo de Lafayette

I still don’t believe what I witnessed this past weekend. Blinking my eyes in the...

January 2015

January 08, 2015

Ryan Parker Reviews ‘Selma’

Ryan Parker had the chance to talk with cast members from Selma, including David Oyelowo,...

January 05, 2015

‘The Silver Chalice’ and the Bible in our Minds

If one stores a collection of images of a particular literary figure, or setting, or...

December 2014

December 21, 2014

Notes on ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’

Ryan Parker already has an excellent review of this film, which actually involves interviews with...

November 2014

November 23, 2014

Disquiet Time: A Review

It’s been a long time since I’ve had a productive streak of quiet times: portions...

November 04, 2014

A Dance Between Science and Religion

Far too many of us are well aware of the tension between science and religion,...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

Left Behind: It’s as Bad as We Feared

Left Behind is an awful movie. I expected it to be awful on the theological...

October 16, 2014

The Violence of History

Within the genre of war films lies a sub-genre devoted to anti-war war films, films...

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