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April 2010

April 14, 2010

Great Drama in Action Clothing

Like many of you, my Netflix Queue is a mile long. Some films have been...

April 12, 2010

Act Now! For Only $9.99

What is the meaning of life? What if I told you you could find out...

April 07, 2010

Slapped Senseless

Exploitation films of the '60s and '70s are a fascinating study. Are they exploitative, as...

April 05, 2010

Oh That Lady!

From cultural, theological, and moral perspectives, the Studio Era of Hollywood is a fascinating study. ...

April 02, 2010

Epic Fail

If anything, the mechanical owl in the original Clash of the Titans signaled a level...

April 01, 2010

Broken but Healing

As would be expected, Pedro Almodovar's latest film, Broken Embraces, is an alluring mix of...

March 2010

March 29, 2010

Save the Next One

In preparation for our trip to Belgium next month, my wife wanted to watch In...

March 22, 2010

Soul Storage

Last week, I wrote a short review of Seconds and the "what-if-ness" of cinema. This...

March 17, 2010

No Third Chances…

"What if" is the basis of cinema. All filmmakers, to some degree, ask themselves this...

March 15, 2010

THE FIFTH ELEMENT: The Gospel According to Luc

Marion Grau, Professor of Theology at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, makes her...

March 10, 2010

Creative Gaming

Thankfully, in the recent publication, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God, editor Craig...

February 2010

February 26, 2010

In Defense of AVATAR: Or Why Mark Driscoll Just Doesn't Get It

Yesterday, a friend directed me to an article about a recent sermon by Mark Driscoll...

February 24, 2010

Shut Out the Past

Martin Scorsese has provided us with some of the most memorable films, and moments, in...

February 15, 2010

The Hound of Heaven

As the days and weeks approach, we'll start to hear more and more about the...

February 12, 2010

Swing and a Miss…

After watching Creation, the film supposedly about Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, one...

February 09, 2010

Moments of Grace…

Richard Lindsay reviews A Single Man after the jump. A Single Man is the somewhat...

February 04, 2010

Crazy Good…

Crazy Heart is this year's The Wrestler, and that's not a bad thing. Without the...

February 03, 2010

Pop Theology's Oscar Conversation

Like Punxsutawney Phil, Ernest Myers usually makes an appearance at Pop Theology around this time...

February 01, 2010

Bad Even for Hollywood

In a recent review of The Book of Eli, I referenced Owen Glieberman's review of...

January 2010

January 29, 2010

A New Way to Dialogue…

I recently highlighted a list of significant religious documentaries released in the past decade. Well...it...

January 27, 2010

The Bubble: A Review

Check out Richard Lindsay's review of the Israeli film, The Bubble (2006), after the jump....

January 20, 2010

A Post-Apocalyptic Bible

In 2009, there were two (post)apocalyptic films...that I am aware of, The Road and 2012. ...

January 19, 2010

The Hurt Locker

Many of the films that focus on the war in Iraq look at the effects...

January 12, 2010

LIFE.SUPPORT.MUSIC. A Review

At the first Transforming Theology Conference last year, Tripp Fuller and I videoed the participants...

January 05, 2010

A Decade for Documentaries

As Richard and I mentioned in our review of some of the most spiritually and...

January 04, 2010

Ten Spiritually/Theologically Significant Films of the Decade

Pop Theology contributor Richard Lindsay and I have just completed our list of ten spiritually

December 2009

December 23, 2009

Victory With (A Sappy) Heart

As a sports fan, I am well aware of games' ability to bring people together...

December 22, 2009

A Cinematic Game Changer?

Unless you've been in a coma for over a year, you are probably familiar with...

December 15, 2009

A Complex Evil

I recently took a break from my Christmas movie bonanza with all its images of...

December 11, 2009

He Loves to Fly and It Shows

Throughout this semester, I have frequently referenced an NPR interview with film scholar David Thomson...