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October 2012

October 17, 2012

Look Closely at Your Own Soul: A Review of Savage Cinema

Even though he is not working from an explicitly religious or theological perspective, Stephen Prince's...

October 17, 2012

A Fraternal Order of Eagles Ten Commandments Print

On August 30, I published a post about the history of public displays of the...

October 15, 2012

Second Chances and Cycles of Violence: A Review of Looper

The willful suspension of disbelief. All sci-fi films demand it, and some even reward it....

September 2012

September 18, 2012

Total Recall: Remembering It Wholesale

A few weeks ago, I went to see the Colin Ferrell Total Recall remake (directed...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Cecil B. DeMille and Roy's Rock

In 1958, Malcolm Boyd, an Episcopal priest and former Hollywood writer, soon to be known...

August 22, 2012

An Ode to Pain

When I saw the previews for Warrior, I figured it wasn't for me, and so...

August 22, 2012

July 2012

July 30, 2012

Either Really [Bleepin'] Smart or Really [Bleepin'] Dumb

I've long been interested in teaching a class on humor and the "isms" (race, class,...

July 19, 2012

It's the End of the World as She Knows It, and She Feels Fine

Every generation, by virtue of being born into a historical continuum is burdened by the...

July 18, 2012

Faulty Beginnings and Feeling Love(d)

I had seen much of the publicity for Mike Mills' Beginners and was aware of...

July 03, 2012

A Reasonable Reboot

I don't really know why we had a reboot of the Spider-Man franchise...oh wait, I...

June 2012

June 26, 2012

Somebody's Got To Review Prometheus!

Ryan and Amy are finishing up a week in a Southeast Asian paradise with little...

June 25, 2012

On Sin, Trauma, and Forgiveness

Catching up on a bit of film-watching and research, I recently watched Oliver Hirschbiegel's Five...

June 07, 2012

Dying Multiple Deaths

I've been reading quite a bit lately about sin, violence, forgiveness and reconciliation for a...

May 2012

May 26, 2012

The Heroine's Journey: Richard's Pan's Labyrinth Paper Finally Gets Published

Richard here. After six years of developing and submitting (and re-submitting, and re-submitting) a paper...

May 18, 2012

A Past Without a Future…A Future Without a Past

Traveling throughout Southeast Asia, my wife Amy and I have seen labor exploitation up close....

April 2012

April 28, 2012

Bully

Richard here. Bully is a raw and disturbing documentary about harassment in schools--a long overdue...

April 26, 2012

Society Needs to Crumble

Joss Whedon's latest film, The Cabin in the Woods, directed by and co-written with Drew...

April 20, 2012

The Ten Commandments of 1923: The Exodus, Take One

Richard here. Adding some more wisdom culled from the notes of my dissertation, here's the...

April 07, 2012

Consistently, Quietly Brilliant

There are few filmmakers that I get as excited about for new productions like I...

March 2012

March 29, 2012

The First Great Ben-Hur

Richard here. PopTheology.com benefits from the fruits of my dissertation labor. Not everything could have...

March 23, 2012

Changing the Game

Unless you're just a raging bibliophile, I imagine it's almost impossible to complete The Hunger...

March 09, 2012

It's a Work of Art…But Much More

It's a good thing for American filmmakers nominated for Best Picture this year that the...

February 2012

February 22, 2012

Helping "The Help"

Richard Lindsay with a few thoughts on The Help's Oscar campaign and the work of...

February 15, 2012

A Panic Takes Hold

Like all great films, Jeff Nichols' latest film, Take Shelter, speaks to the times in...

February 06, 2012

A Family Mess

In one of his recent film articles for the Baptist Press, Phil Boatwright bemoaned the...

February 03, 2012

The Monstrous Passion

Ryan here. In a couple of weeks, I'll be departing on a world tour of...

January 2012

January 12, 2012

Ten from 2011

Before the new year gets any older, Richard and I offer up some of our...

December 2011

December 19, 2011

A Beautiful Connection to the Past

Thirty-two thousand years is certainly a difficult length of time for us short-lived creatures to...

October 2011

October 21, 2011

Kicking Off My Sunday Shoes: Footloose and the Church’s Dancing History

Sometime Pop Theology contributor and dancer extraordinaire, the Rev. Dr. Angela Yarber, gives us her...