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October 2025

October 30, 2025

‘Frankenstein’ and the Monsters Among Us

The tagline for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein reads, “Only a monster would play God.” From...

January 2025

January 30, 2025

Nosferatu Paints a Dark Picture That Points to the Light

We’ve seen sexy vampires, sparkly vampires, atheistic vampires who might take their morning showers in...

February 2022

February 28, 2022

In Cyrano, Great Love Meets the Greatest Sin: Pride.

Cyrano, the musical based on Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac, is predicated on...

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...

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,...

May 2019

May 21, 2019

Storytelling is Not a Democracy.

In the closing moments of HBO’s Game of Thrones, a haggard Tyrion Lannister suggests that...

April 2019

April 19, 2019

Pilgrim’s Progress is Instructive, Inspiring … and Utterly Insane

I've never read Pilgrim's Progress. As a college English major, you think I would've. And...

August 2018

August 10, 2018

Leviathan: The Meg, Moby Dick and Power from the Deep

The Meg paddles into theaters this weekend, and the makers of this Jason Statham action...

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...

November 2017

November 14, 2017

Dickens Didn’t ‘Invent’ Christmas. But Here Are Three Ways He Changed It.

Forget the ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Future. The real inescapable spirit of the...

November 10, 2017

A Spoiler-Free Look at What Murder on the Orient Express Gets Right, and Wrong, About Faith

Every summer, when I'd visit my grandma and grandpa at their Colorado cabin for a...

September 2017

September 07, 2017

‘The Man Who Invented Christmas’ Coming to Christmas Future (and It Looks Pretty Good)

We all know 'A Christmas Carol.' We've seen Ebenezer Scrooge played by Alastair Sim, George...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

Three Reasons to Be (Tentatively) Excited About The Silver Chair Movie

The Silver Chair is getting a movie. And I'm … cautiously optimistic? I know, I...

August 2016

August 05, 2016

The Little Prince is a Little Magical

We're in the shaggiest stretch of the dog days of summer, and the theaters are full...

July 2016

July 08, 2016

Captain Fantastic: The Anti-Christian Christian Movie

Captain Fantastic, a little indie film out today, is a moving family parable about hippie...

March 2016

March 09, 2016

The Young Messiah: Waking Up

When do we become ourselves? When do we realize who we are? For most of...

February 2016

February 08, 2016

The Prejudice Against Christian Zombies

I was pretty disappointed with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which was released this past...

December 2015

December 11, 2015

In the Heart of the Sea, in the Eye of God

In the Heart of the Sea gets under your skin. It’s hard for movies to...

November 2015

November 20, 2015

Together, Mockingjay’s Katniss and Peeta Make a Pretty Good Christ Figure

G.K. Chesterton once wrote that “Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites by...

October 2015

October 26, 2015

This May Be the Year’s Best Movie—And It’s Weirdly Christian

War Room is this year's Christian smash. Its core evangelical audience has helped the Kendrick...

June 2015

June 16, 2015

Game of Thrones: Naked and Ashamed

Game of Thrones concluded its fifth season with, as it always does, a lot of...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

A Digression: The Little Prince

I've got a list of favorite books. F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Robert Penn...

March 2015

March 29, 2015

Burning Bush 2.0: Two-Hundred Pages of Pop Profundity

I just got a box of books Friday. Not just of any book, but my...

March 20, 2015

G.K. Chesterton: The Sinner Who Might Be a Saint

There is a move afoot to have G. K. Chesterton canonized as a Catholic saint....

January 2015

January 20, 2015

A Literary Digression

As you might expect of a movie critic, I watch a lot of movies. Denver...

October 2014

October 11, 2014

Divergent, Dante and a Trip to the Pit

If one wishes to make lots of money in this world, one does not major...