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April 2009

April 21, 2009

Man of a Thousand Faces

Pop Theology contributor Richard Lindsay gives us a brief review of the biopic about one...

April 13, 2009

Get Down with WATTSTAX

Pop Theology contributor Richard Lindsay gets funky with a capsule review of Wattstax. On August...

April 06, 2009

Make Up Your Mind Already…

It's not unusual for even secular apocalyptic films to have religious under As a meteor...

March 2009

March 27, 2009

Encounters at the End of the World

What do gay penguins, artistic pseudo-intelligent single cell organisms, and the end of human life...

March 26, 2009

This Cross Was Made for Walking…

Few people know his name, but people all over the world have seen him at...

March 25, 2009

Frozen River

Pop Theology contributor Wendy Arce reviews last year's independent hit, Frozen River. The independent film,...

March 24, 2009

Let the Right One In

Pop Theology contributor Wendy Arce reviews the Swedish vampire film, Let the Right One In....

March 20, 2009

Slumdog: The Little Movie That Couldn't

So not everyone loved Slumdog Millionaire. It's success has been bugging occasional Pop Theology contributor...

March 17, 2009

Bohemian Invasions…

This is always the perfect time of year to catch up on a backlog of...

March 02, 2009

We Finally Get to Watch…

In 1962, legendary film producer Dino de Laurentiis announced his plans to create a cinematic...

February 2009

February 20, 2009

To Serve and Protect…

I wish that more Oscar-nominated films released to DVD before the program airs. It can...

January 2009

January 21, 2009

Top 10 Spiritually Significant Films of 2008

Before 2009 gets any older, I thought I'd better look back over the films that...

January 14, 2009

Sign of the Times…

A couple of months ago, film scholar and critic David Thomson spoke on NPR during...

January 14, 2009

Who Says Christmas Is Over…

We just can't let go of the holiday spirit here at Pop Theology. Wendy Arce...

January 12, 2009

Go On, Get Happy!

Yesterday morning, I heard a homily in which the priest talked about partaking of the...

January 05, 2009

Theology and Film: A Conversation

I recently had the privilege of interviewing Marjorie Suchocki, a process theologian and Professor Emerita...

December 2008

December 30, 2008

A Millionaire Making Meaning

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button provides us with a character who is able to...

December 29, 2008

A Curious Love Story

Over the Christmas holidays, I saw two films that dealt with the meaning of life...or...

December 22, 2008

From the Top Please…

John Huston concludes his film, The Bible: In the Beginning (1966), with Abraham's near-sacrifice of...

December 14, 2008

Another Good Interview…

No, I'm not talking about the latest Pop Theology review between Richard Lindsay and myself. ...

December 09, 2008

MILK: A Pop Theology Dialogue

Pop Theology contributor Richard Lindsay and I saw Gus Van Sant's new film, MILK, last...

November 2008

November 14, 2008

Back to the Beginning…

Looking ahead to today's opening of the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, I...

November 13, 2008

A Bloody Mess…

Twenty-first century cinematic ministers fare little better than their predecessors. Southerners in contemporary cinema never...

October 2008

October 31, 2008

The Real Thing…

Looking at religious documentaries that expose a certain element of Christianity, we can trace a...

October 30, 2008

"Without Them, I'm Not Me…"

These are the words that Tammy Faye Messner (formerly Bakker) uses to describe her outrageous...

October 29, 2008

W.: A Pop Theology Dialogue

We are trying something new here at Pop Theology. I recently went to see W....

October 27, 2008

One Dark Night

Along with the religion and film class in which I am a teaching assistant, I...

October 24, 2008

The Perfect (Moral) Storm

I am serving as a teaching assistant for my advisor's Religion and the Cinema course. ...

October 23, 2008

A Country Gospel: Pop Theology Turns 200

For Pop Theology's 200th post, we celebrate 1973, the year of the Jesus musical. That...

October 14, 2008

Bad Movie Monday: The Happening

It's been a while since my last bad movie Monday, what with the start-up of...