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March 2026

March 31, 2026

Finding God’s Grace in ‘Project Hail Mary’

“Do you believe in God?” Ryland Grace asks his boss, Eva Stratt, in Project Hail...

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...

July 2025

July 31, 2025

‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Comes With Fantastic Messages

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the best movie ever made about Marvel’s First Family....

March 2024

March 01, 2024

‘Dune: Part Two’ Asks Explosive Questions About Religion

Dune: Part Two is out in theaters today, and it’s pretty spectacular. Sure, the film...

March 10, 2023

The Mandalorian Dives Into Sacred Waters

I swear on my name and the names of the ancestors... That I shall walk...

April 2021

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....

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...

October 2018

October 08, 2018

Is Venom Anti-Science?

Is the new movie Venom silly? Yep. Dumb? Sure. No one's going to walk into...

July 2018

July 12, 2018

Four Reasons Why A Quiet Place is One of the Year’s Best—and Most Spiritual—Movies

Look, I've seen a lot of good movies this year. First Reformed was great and...

March 2018

March 30, 2018

The Search for Significance in Ready Player One

You gotta hand it to Steven Spielberg: He can make a pretty fun movie when...

March 02, 2018

The Shape of Water is Just Pretty Good … Except for One Beautiful Thing

The Oscars are practically upon us, and The Shape of Water leads the pack with...

February 2018

February 23, 2018

The Eden and Armageddon of Annihilation

Want to know what Annihilation has on its mind? Look no further than Lena's tattoo....

December 2017

December 14, 2017

Why Luke Skywalker is a Perfect Spiritual Symbol For Our Times

It's not easy being Luke Skywalker. The one-time fresh-faced lad from Tatooine has been kidnapped...

October 2017

October 06, 2017

Getting to Blade Runner 2049’s Soul (Without Getting Into Spoilers)

"When do you get your soul?" An agnostic friend of mine asked me that in...

May 2017

May 22, 2017

Great Scott! Three Fascinating Religious Characters in Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant

Director Ridley Scott hates religion, or so he says. He told Esquire Magazine that it...

December 2016

December 17, 2016

Rogue One’s Heroes Aren’t so Heroic, and That’s a Good Thing

I was a scrawny, buck-toothed –year-old when I first saw the first Star Wars movie—known...

September 2016

September 07, 2016

How Logical Spock Gives Us a Surprising Example of Spirituality

The starship Enterprise may reportedly have plied the galaxy in the 23rd century, but it...

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...

January 2016

January 27, 2016

X-Files: Signs of Promise

Much has been written about the greatness of The X-Files—how the original series revolutionized television,...

December 2015

December 18, 2015

Is Spoiling a Sin?

Jim McDermott doesn't want me, or you, or anyone to tell him about Star Wars...

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...

October 2015

October 23, 2015

How the World’s Worst Movie is Technically Christian

I have a soft spot in my heart (and possibly on the brain) for bad movies....

October 14, 2015

Frankenstein: Still Crazy (and Relevant) After All These Years

Frankenstein, the 1931 classic Universal monster movie, probably doesn’t have the oomph to terrify folks...

October 02, 2015

The Martian and Sci-Fi’s Search for Salvation

Mars has never been a particularly welcoming place. From H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds...

August 2015

August 10, 2015

Fantastic Four: Proof That Not Every Superhero Needs a Dark Reboot

Reed Richards feels really, really bad for what he did to Ben Grimm. He tells...

June 2015

June 07, 2015

Tomorrowland: An Exercise in Faith

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

May 2015

May 18, 2015

Mad Max and the Furious Road to Redemption

We Christians talk a lot about our broken world. And let me tell you, worlds...

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...

April 17, 2015

Just What Is CW’s The Messengers Trying to Say?

I used to dread reviewing shows from The CW. Every new program seemed like pap...

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...