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December 2024

December 29, 2024

Watching God’s Best Movies of 2024

Yep, people still go to the movies. Some people wondered whether that was so earlier...

July 2024

July 19, 2024

We Have to Talk About ‘The Acolyte’

Let’s not draw this out: The Acolyte failed. The first season of Star Wars’ latest...

June 2022

June 10, 2022

With Ms. Marvel, Disney+ Gives Us a Muslim Superhero. Great! But …

Kamala Khan is just an ordinary teen with an extraordinary twist. Is it her powers?...

July 2021

July 09, 2021

Black Widow’s Quest for Redemption Might Make Her Marvel’s Best Hero

Natasha Romanoff never asked to be Black Widow. She wanted to be a butterfly;...

April 2021

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...

October 2020

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...

June 2019

June 19, 2019

Why Are We Here? A Spork Has Some Thoughts About That.

Toy Story 4 is an odd duck. I’m not speaking of the literal odd duck...

April 2019

April 26, 2019

Everything I Needed to Know I Learned From the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Avengers: Endgame is here. Finally. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been building toward this moment...

March 2019

March 06, 2019

Dumbo Takes Flight (in This Behind-The-Scenes Snippet)

“Movies have gotten so bad!” People sometimes tell me. “The sex! The violence! The swearing!”...

October 2018

October 04, 2018

The New Trailer for The Nutcracker and the Four Realms Looks Pretty Cool

A new trailer for Disney's upcoming fantasy film, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, just...

August 2018

August 09, 2018

Move Over, Odysseus: Christopher Robin Takes a Classic Hero’s Journey

To the denizens of the Hundred-Acre Wood, Christopher Robin has always been a hero. In...

August 02, 2018

Four Great Lessons from Christopher Robin (With a Spiritual Twist)

When Christopher Robin was a child, he knew everything. Or, at least, that's what his...

June 2018

June 14, 2018

Incredibles 2’s Incredible Message

Every superhero has his weakness. Superman has his kryptonite, Batman had his Bane. And in...

March 2018

March 08, 2018

How A Wrinkle in Time Went Wrong

Madeline L'Engle once famously said, "You have to write the book that wants to be...

January 2018

January 14, 2018

What Kylo Ren Can Teach Us

Love it or hate it, Star Wars: The Last Jedi has sparked plenty of debate....

July 2017

July 18, 2017

I’m Officially Pumped for Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time

So, there's only so much you can learn from a movie trailer. They're advertisements, after all. They're...

July 07, 2017

Spider-Man: Homecoming Proves That Superhero Movies Have Never Been Better. (But It Can’t Last.)

Years from now—nay, decades—film historians will look back at 2017, rub their graying goatees, adjust...

May 2017

May 04, 2017

7 Hungry Sins to Watch For in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 doesn't dilly dally. The film opens with an action...

March 2017

March 16, 2017

3 Ways Christianity Sneaks Into Beauty and the Beast (Despite that ‘Gay Moment’)

I'm pretty sure that Bill Condon wishes he had just kept his mouth shut. Condon,...

November 2016

November 22, 2016

What Would Moana Do? Seven Life Lessons From Disney Princesses

Moana, Disney’s latest animated heroine, sails into theaters this week. While she might not live...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

The Quiet Miracle of Queen of Katwe

It’s a miracle. The phrase is pregnant with Christian portent. Yes, other religions have their...

December 2015

December 16, 2015

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Gets Spiritual

Kylo Ren isn’t all that he pretends to be. When we first meet him in...

November 2015

November 13, 2015

Fantasia is Disney’s Most Spiritual Movie

Disney movies are rarely explicitly spiritual. Though Disney was a practicing Protestant and spoke often...

June 2015

June 23, 2015

Looking Inside Inside Out

Pixar is like the Christmas morning of movie studios, but without the inevitable disappointment. Almost...

June 07, 2015

Tomorrowland: An Exercise in Faith

It’ll be a big year for the Mouse House. Avengers: Age of Ultron is the...

March 2015

March 13, 2015

Cinderella and the Radical Courage of Kindness

Full disclosure: I missed the end of Cinderella. It wasn't my fault. I went to...

January 2015

January 26, 2015

Big Hero 6: Binary Love

Disney has given us some pretty unlikely heroes: A wooden marionette; a flying elephant; a...

January 02, 2015

Into The Woods: Evil Beans

In her look back on the year in pop culture, Christianity Today's Alissa Wilkinson deftly discusses...

November 2014

November 14, 2014

The Little Mermaid: Like the Garden of Eden, Only Wetter

The Little Mermaid opened in theaters 25 years ago Monday (Nov. 17). It proved to...

November 05, 2014

Maleficent: Horns, Wings and a Fractured Fairy

According to Augustine and a whole lot of subsequent theologians, evil isn’t really a “thing.”...