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April 2015

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 05, 2015

Timbuktu

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

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 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...

September 2014

September 18, 2014

BORGMAN: Movie Review

American filmmakers just don't do weird and disturbing like European, Asian, or, heck, any other...

September 15, 2014

The Drop: Movie Review

It's rare that I go see a film based solely on one actor. There are...

August 2014

August 11, 2014

Summer Silliness: Sharknado 2 & Black Jesus

I never thought I’d say this, but thank God for cable television. As a Basic...

August 05, 2014

A Match Made in Heaven…Even If It Looks Like Hell

Last week, I had the good fortune to interview Brendan Gleeson and John Michael McDonagh...

August 01, 2014

The Good and the Reviled

For the initiated the title of writer/director John Michael McDonagh's (The Guard) second film, Calvary, will inevitably conjure...

July 2014

July 11, 2014

Inter-Species Peacekeeping

I was just as surprised as everyone else by the success of 2011's Rise of the...

July 04, 2014

Long Train Runnin’

I thought I had seen the best action-adventure sci-fi film of the summer in Edge of...

June 2014

June 10, 2014

If At First You Don’t Succeed…

It's hard to believe that Edge of Tomorrow didn't fare better at the box office over...

June 06, 2014

Victim and Violator

If an origin story is done well, it often gives us the opportunity to consider...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

Notes on ‘Godzilla’

For a good full review of the film, see Andrew O’Heir on Salon.com 1.) Sometimes...

May 27, 2014

One of the Best Yet

After a disappointing experience with Godzilla, X-Men: Days of Future Past set the summer blockbuster ship aright....

May 15, 2014

Risking Change

Disney's no stranger to inspirational sports films (Miracle, Invincible, and The Rookie, to name a...

May 14, 2014

Riding in Cars with Men and an Alien

Between Saturday and Monday, I watched (unintentionally) three film that all centered on lead characters...

May 01, 2014

Standing Up for the Least of These…To An Extent

The latest installment of the Spider-Man series reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, continues to carve...

April 2014

April 21, 2014

Pitch Your Way to $1M

I've seen Disney's upcoming baseball film, Million Dollar Arm, twice now and will write more on...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

NOAH: The Beautiful and the Haunting

NOTE: This review contains detailed spoilers, many of which you've no doubt already heard. If...

March 21, 2014

A Puzzling Dystopia

In defense of this review, I haven't read the books. The latest installment of what...

March 19, 2014

The New Amazing Spiderman 2 Trailer is Here!

Check out the final official trailer for The Amazing Spiderman 2 releasing on May 2. With Chronicle's...

March 18, 2014

SXSW 2014: Part 2

The second half of my first SXSW experience was marked by two productive meetings for...

March 13, 2014

SXSW Film: The First Half

It’s my first time to SXSW, so I quickly learned what a fool I was...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

Death at the Movies: A Review

Few film and religion books are as intriguingly interreligious as Lyn and Tom Davis Genelli's Death...