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February 2018

February 23, 2018

The Apostle Paul: From A Polite Bribe to The Final Verdict

Last November at SBL in Boston, I had the privilege of sitting down with filmmaker...

January 2018

January 17, 2018

“Walk a Mile” in a Refugee’s Shoes Documentary

Walk a Mile in a Refugee's Shoes from COIN on Vimeo. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE From:...

December 2017

December 07, 2017

Darkest Hour

I was delighted to have the opportunity to see the new movie Darkest Hour before...

November 2017

November 03, 2017

A Polite Bribe (and its Sequel)

Robert Orlando shared with me that he will be releasing a sequel to his movie...

October 2017

October 01, 2017

Marshall

I was delighted to have an opportunity to watch the upcoming movie Marshall in advance...

September 2017

September 01, 2017

Who is Jesus? The New Testament Answers as Blog Post and Movies

I am really struck by the Lumo Project's work to make movie versions of the...

June 2017

June 11, 2017

The Green Pastures

When I mentioned in my course on the Bible and music that one of my...

April 2017

April 11, 2017

Philosophical Themes in The Matrix

Via 3QuarksDaily.

April 06, 2017

Gnostic Cinema

April De Conick has shared her opening talk that introduced the recent Gnostic Cinema movie...

March 2017

March 27, 2017

An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story

I was delighted to attend the screening of the new movie An American Conscience: The...

March 02, 2017

An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story

On March 27th at 6:30pm, Butler University will host a screening of Martin Doblmeier's new movie...

January 2017

January 10, 2017

Silence

I was delighted to have an opportunity to see an advance screening of Martin Scorsese's...

January 04, 2017

Hidden Figures

I was delighted to attend an advance screening tonight of the movie Hidden Figures, and...

December 2016

December 19, 2016

Blade Runner 2049

Next year, there will be a new Blade Runner movie. Excited? Via Polygon.

October 2016

October 26, 2016

Call for Papers: The Place of Religion in Film

March 30th-April 1st, the University of Syracuse will host a conference on "The Place of...

August 2016

August 08, 2016

Rewatching The Black Hole

I just rewatched the science fiction movie The Black Hole, to introduce my son to...

June 2016

June 12, 2016

Visiting Edom/Mars

It will take some time to process and share many of the thoughts I had...

March 2016

March 11, 2016

The Young Messiah: Recording of Today’s Chat with Cyrus Nowrasteh

The video above is the recording of today's chat that myself and several other Patheos...

March 10, 2016

Live Chat about The Young Messiah

Patheos will be hosting a live chat about the new movie The Young Messiah tomorrow...

March 08, 2016

The Young Messiah

I am grateful to have had the opportunity (as part of the Patheos Movie Club)...

February 2016

February 05, 2016

A New Category of Violence

The image came to my attention via John Byron on Facebook. What is "biblical violence"...

January 2016

January 01, 2016

The Average Faces of Jesus and Satan

I had the two images above forwarded to me by a blog reader. They represent...

December 2015

December 18, 2015

I Saw Star Wars: The Force Awakens!

I've seen Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. For the most part, I love what...

December 17, 2015

Is This The Biggest Star Wars Spoiler Ever?

This is a photo of the most massive Star Wars spoiler I have ever come...

September 2015

September 20, 2015

An Act of Love

Rev. Frank Schaefer has drawn to my attention that a movie is being made about his...

September 07, 2015

Bond Who?

I've been rewatching the James Bond movies with my son, who hadn't seen them yet....

August 2015

August 30, 2015

Lucy

I watched the movie Lucy a while back and meant to blog about it. Although it...

July 2015

July 02, 2015

If The Princess Bride Were Remade Today

The image is from Jeff Carter. I try to make this blog an exception to...

June 2015

June 13, 2015

Movie Trailer for the Papal Encyclical

I may be mistaken, but I believe that this may be the first time in history...

June 01, 2015

Prophets of the Technological Future

I had been meaning to blog about the movie Ex Machina for a while now....

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