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October 2011

October 17, 2011

Sherwood's Best Yet…With Qualifications

Unless you've been hiding under an entertainment rock for the past three years or so,...

October 07, 2011

A Real Human Being?

It might sound weird, but occasionally I'll see a film that I enjoy so much...

September 2011

September 27, 2011

Being Fully Alive on Higher Ground

Yet again, one of the best films of the year will not get the extensive...

September 15, 2011

The Help and the Influence of Story

Richard Lindsay reviews The Help, the film based on the novel of the same name...

September 02, 2011

Fear Those Who Fear God

There's a tradition of reading some of Jesus' more intense sayings as prophetic hyperbole. That...

August 2011

August 29, 2011

(Re)Visiting a Classic: "The Ox-Bow Incident"

The recent release of the West Memphis Three is a fitting excuse, if one is...

August 05, 2011

We Have Met the Aliens and They Is Us*

Richard Lindsay reviews the latest summer blockbuster, Cowboys and Aliens. More after the jump. Cowboys...

August 03, 2011

Crazy Stupid

Looking to Hollywood for marriage or relationship advice is about as foolish a task as...

July 2011

July 27, 2011

It's All Over

Richard Lindsay and I finally get around to posting our thoughts on the latest Harry...

July 19, 2011

They Eat their Young, Don't They?

In preparation for an upcoming sermon I'm giving on Jacob wrestling with the angel, I've...

July 14, 2011

Quo Vadis: Forgotten Classic of the Sword-and-Sandal Genre

Richard Lindsay looks back on the Christian epic, Quo Vadis, after the jump. Along with...

July 08, 2011

On Religious Tradition and Ecstasy (the drug)

The basic premise of Holy Rollers is interesting enough: an Orthodox Jew gets involved in...

June 2011

June 23, 2011

A Cosmic Melodrama

After some technical difficulties and a "tree of life" experience of my own, I can...

June 17, 2011

A Disturbing Mix

It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what kind of film The Handmaid is. It’s definitely a...

June 13, 2011

The First (and Best) Class

This review of X-Men: First Class is somewhat delayed...but then again, a week on the...

May 2011

May 26, 2011

A Bio-Technological Prophet

With all the talk surrounding Harold Camping, the failure of his March 21st rapture prediction,...

May 20, 2011

Placing Products & Making Choices

Tony Mills reviews Morgan Spurlock's latest documentary and considers the ways in which product placement...

May 18, 2011

There's Beauty in those Messy Places

Ordinarily, when observing portraits, most of us might not think about the potentially transformative relationship...

May 06, 2011

Of Gods and Leadership

New Pop Theology contributor Tony Mills reviews Thor, the latest Marvel single-character blockbuster leading up...

May 03, 2011

Revenge on a Small (but Tragic) Scale

Conversations about violence, justice, revenge, and healing have no doubt been taking place across social...

April 2011

April 26, 2011

Witness a Bad Film…

Director Kevin Smith once said (in the documentary This Film is Not Yet Rated) that...

April 25, 2011

An Alien Theological Encounter

New Pop Theology contributor Tony Mills reviews the recent Simon Pegg/Nick Frost comedy, Paul. Check...

April 11, 2011

OF GODS AND MEN: Loving your Neighbor—when your Neighbor is Death

In his latest article, Richard Lindsay engages in something of a review/conversation of the new...

March 2011

March 21, 2011

The Adjustment Bureau: ‘We’re from God and We’re Here to Help’

Pop Theology contributor Richard Lindsay reviews The Adjustment Bureau after the jump. “God has a...

March 14, 2011

Let It (Them) Be…

You'd be forgiven for thinking that a movie called Monsters would feature, well, numerous monstrous...

February 2011

February 15, 2011

The Destruction of Innocence

Recovering from a dissertation defense, starting a new job, and prepping weekly lectures for my...

January 2011

January 31, 2011

Enter at Your Own Risk…

I hesitate to write about any film by Gaspar Noe for fear that someone might...

January 26, 2011

How Do You Spell Biutiful?

Biutiful will most likely turn out to be one of the best Oscar nominated films...

January 05, 2011

(Im)Migration and Our Neighbors

Pop Theology contributor Richard Lindsay reviews Sin Nombre and its implications for our understanding of...

January 03, 2011

10 From 2010

Once again, Richard Lindsay and I have compiled our list of ten spiritually or theologically...