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May 2021

May 19, 2021

Give Some ‘Respect’ to the Year of Aretha Franklin

The second trailer for Respect, a biopic of Aretha Franklin and starring the dynamic Jennifer...

May 14, 2021

Bad Religion’s at the Heart of Underground Railroad’s Most Despicable Character

Amazon Prime’s The Underground Railroad, based on the 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead,...

May 07, 2021

Jennifer Hudson Dives Into Psalm 28 in Netflix’s ‘Monster’

Monster, a new film premiering on Netflix today, focuses on 17-year-old honor student Steven Harmon...

April 2021

April 25, 2021

Mockumentary YouthMin is No Christian Movie, But It’s Smarter Than It Looks

His name is Dave, but he likes the kids to call him Pastor D. “I...

April 22, 2021

Oscar’s Bite-Size Docs Are Worth the Watch. Here’s Where You Can Find Them

I’m pretty up on my movies. When the Oscars roll around (as they will April...

April 12, 2021

Narnia Comes to ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’

Turkish Delight. It’s a candy, of course—a mixture of sugar and starch and tasty...

April 09, 2021

Three Tasty Thoughts Found in ‘The Truffle Hunters’

Normally, if your dog digs up something a big, smelly blob in the forest, you’d...

April 05, 2021

The Unholy is Creepy, But Suffers From a Fatal Flaw

Christian entertainment blooms this time of year. In the space between Palm Sunday and Easter,...

April 03, 2021

Godzilla vs. Kong is the Tower of Babel All Over Again

Godzilla vs. Kong isn’t a great work of art. It’s not even a great movie....

October 2020

October 28, 2020

The Christian Paradox of Pan’s Labyrinth

Pan’s Labyrinth is not, exactly, a horror movie—no matter what my podcast partner might say....

October 21, 2020

Take Time for Time: The Doc is Worth It.

Time, a powerful new documentary directed by Garrett Bradley and available now on Amazon Prime,...

October 16, 2020

Seeing Faith in Disney+’s Clouds

Zach Sobiech wasn’t expecting a miracle when he went to Lourdes. His family made the...

August 2020

August 24, 2020

Words on Bathroom Walls Reminds Us of the Power of Confession

Words on Bathroom Walls, a teen romantic drama released to theaters this past weekend, takes...

July 2020

July 18, 2020

The Quiet Faith of Greyhound

Tom Hanks’ new movie Greyhound takes place during what Winston Churchill called the Battle of...

July 13, 2020

How Netflix’s Bloody The Old Guard is Like the Sweetest Christmas Movie Ever

You wouldn’t think that Andy from Netflix’s The Old Guard would have much to...

June 2020

June 19, 2020

This Man is Fast. But in Runner, It’s His Will That Moves You.

Guor Mading Maker was an experienced runner long before he laced up his first pair...

May 2020

May 29, 2020

The Truth Is Out There, Somewhere, in Amazon’s ‘The Vast of Night.’

In the opening minutes of Amazon Prime’s new film, The Vast of Night, the geekily...

April 2020

April 20, 2020

‘Stories are What Get Us Through Hard Times.’ An Interview With ‘The Quarry’ Director Scott Teems

It’s been a strange year for the movie industry, obviously. But while blockbusters have all...

April 03, 2020

Religion is a Part of The Other Lamb. A Bad, Baaaaad Part

With most theaters closed, The Other Lamb—an art-house horror film—landed on various video-on-demand services...

March 2020

March 11, 2020

How the Movie ‘Wendy’ Shows How We’re Really Not of This World

The movie Wendy hasn’t been as warmly received as director Benh Zeitlin’s breakout film, 2012’s...

February 2020

February 16, 2020

Doc ‘We Believe in Dinosaurs’ Highlights America’s Faith/Science Divide

I’m no scientist, but I do like science. I’m no pastor, but I do love...

February 13, 2020

The Green Knight Looks Intense. But Will It Retain the Original’s Spirituality?

The trailer for David Lowery’s intriguing-looking The Green Knight just dropped. Color me excited …...

December 2019

December 30, 2019

Watching God’s Best Movies of 2019

It’s never easy to piece together these “best of” lists, but I especially struggled this...

December 22, 2019

The 12 Best Non-Christian Christian Movies of the Decade

Hollywood and heaven have never been next-door neighbors. Look, most movie studios want to encourage...

December 10, 2019

In Dark Waters, a Lawyer Trades New-School Profits to Become an Old-School Prophet

The environmental docudrama Dark Waters pits attorney Robert Bilott, one-time defender of the country’s mighty...

October 2019

October 03, 2019

The Real Horror of Joker

Joker makes fine October viewing, what with Halloween around the corner and all. With all...

August 2019

August 15, 2019

Where’d You Go Bernadette? Asks an Important Question—and Not the One in the Title

My favorite quote from Where’d You Go, Bernadette? isn’t from the movie at all. Rather,...

July 2019

July 22, 2019

‘Skin’ the Movie, Gets Under It

Change—real change—is hard. Some people say it’s pretty much impossible. Any changes we make are...

July 05, 2019

Every Movie in the MCU Rated, from Worst to First

Spider-Man: Far from Home is like the “Scouring of the Shire” for the Marvel Cinematic...

June 2019

June 21, 2019

What’s Up With All These Haunted Dolls at the Movies?

Back in my day, dolls rarely tried to kill you. I didn’t own any...