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April 2008

April 06, 2008

Death of Pop Religion Icon…

Charlton Heston died last night at the age of 83. While he was not the...

March 2008

March 31, 2008

Bad Movie Mondays…

Our nearest grocery store has RedBox, a $1 per night DVD rental vending machine. Surprisingly,...

March 30, 2008

Backdraft…

World War II has inspired at least 600 films; the Vietnam War around 100. As...

March 22, 2008

Jesus Movies for Holiday Viewing…

Here is a list of Jesus movies (forgive the whiteness) for your Easter viewing pleasure....

March 22, 2008

Rabid Rabbits

Last weekend, TCM aired the cult classic, Night of the Lepus, a B-horror movie about...

March 17, 2008

Happy Anny, Lebowski!

The Big Lebowski's celebrates its 10th anniversary this month. If, like me, you can't get...

March 11, 2008

Upcoming…

There's a serious lull in theaters these days; however, I'll probably catch Horton Hears a...

March 05, 2008

Recently On TCM…

Turner Classic Movies recently debuted a documentary entitled Thou Shalt Not Sin. The documentary examines...

March 05, 2008

A Real Game…

I realize that I have written about some fairly obscure films in Pop Theology's short...

February 2008

February 24, 2008

80 Oscar 08

I thought about live blogging the 2008 Oscars, but of course, got too caught up...

February 20, 2008

Long Live Convergence…

At its most basic level, the convergence culture about which Henry Jenkins writes depends on...

February 08, 2008

A Bright Commentary…

Depending on the film or those involved in its creation, commentaries can either be truncated...

February 06, 2008

A Fistful of Quarters

For those of you who think that competitive video gaming began with Halo tournaments.... Wait,...

January 2008

January 29, 2008

This I Know…

Of course, I knew I would back track on my list of 2007's most spiritually...

January 26, 2008

2007's Top 10 Spiritually Significant Films…

An Oscar list this is not. There are enough of those floating around magazines and...

January 24, 2008

One Reader's Top 20…

Faithful Pop Theology reader and movie guru, Ernest Myers, recently created his top 20 (well...

January 21, 2008

There Will Be Blood, But No Revelations…

P.T. Anderson's (Boogie Nights, Magnolia) latest film, There Will Be Blood, opened to mixed, though...

January 01, 2008

First Generation Films…

For a class on religion, race, and American film, I watched several movies that dealt...

December 2007

December 31, 2007

Things Done and Things Left Undone…

The prayer of confession in the Episcopal Church asks for forgiveness for things done and...

December 18, 2007

Greater than its parts…

It is a rare thing these days to write about a film that shines in...

December 11, 2007

What's All the Fuss About…

December 7th came and went, as will the hubub around the release of The Golden...

November 2007

November 20, 2007

Dispatches from AAR…Take 4

With my last day and a half turning into something of a wash, the last...

November 14, 2007

A Whole Lotta' Heart

The career path of a filmmaker or actor is often an interesting thing to track....

November 11, 2007

Beyond Everything…

It has been well over a year since I read the news that the Coen...

November 05, 2007

Tough, Baby, Tough

I have never really been a big fan of Ben Affleck's acting. I enjoyed him...

November 02, 2007

New Dylan Biopic

Thanks to Alexander Carpenter for pointing me to this article, Seven Degrees of Bob Dylan...

October 2007

October 19, 2007

Imaging the Unimaginable…

There are many striking elements to George Stevens’ The Diary of Anne Frank. William C....

October 08, 2007

Bing and Bergman: Faith Vs. Works

During his speech at St. Mary’s graduation service, Father O’Malley (Bing Crosby) tells the assembled,...

October 06, 2007

The Meaning of Life…

Having been a fan of Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man, I have always wanted to read...

October 06, 2007

A Cinematic Change…

Thanks to Alex Carpenter for pointing out this video. Jeff Skoll made his fortune ($2...