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By Jake Meador

Authenticity is Actually Kind of Boring: On 'Daredevil: Born Again'

April 11th, 2025|3 min read

By Erik Coonce

Desert Power

February 26th, 2025|10 min read

By Nicholas McDonald

The Nightmare Before Christmas Is About Disenchantment

December 11th, 2024|9 min read

By Ross Byrd

Disney's 'Wish': An Inverted Genie Story

November 18th, 2024|20 min read

By Chris Fogle

How Politics Shape and Twist Relationships

November 8th, 2024|6 min read

By Brian Pell

Killing a Good Priest: The Best Movie on Pastoral Ministry

May 1st, 2024|9 min read

By Jake Meador

The End of Choice

April 8th, 2024|13 min read

By Adam Carrington

Three Godfathers: John Ford’s (Deeply Christian) Christmas Western

December 22nd, 2023|9 min read

By Samuel James

Let Me Live Again

December 14th, 2023|9 min read

By Zephram Foster

Why Christians Need Horror

November 30th, 2023|9 min read

By Robert Brown

The Dead Speak!: Reading with the Jedi

November 8th, 2023|6 min read

By Chris Krycho

Noah: A Theological-Aesthetic Rorschach Test

April 8th, 2014|8 min read

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By Brett McCracken

Lost At Sea, in Space, in the Cloud

November 7th, 2013|4 min read

By Brett McCracken

Body Politics in the Films of Steve McQueen

October 23rd, 2013|5 min read

By Brett McCracken

Catching Up With Time in the “Before” and “Up” Films

June 1st, 2013|6 min read

By Chris Krycho

Jackson and Tolkien: Hollywood's Infatuation With Angst

February 14th, 2013|6 min read

By Guest Writer

Anna Karenina: The Uncontainable Joy of Redemption

January 29th, 2013|4 min read

By Brett McCracken

Is Depiction Endorsement? Filmmaker Responsibility in "Zero Dark Thirty" and "Django Unchained"

January 16th, 2013|6 min read

By Guest Writer

"Les Miserables": Failed Musical, Successful Book

January 15th, 2013|4 min read

By Brett McCracken

In Defense of "Les Miserables"

January 10th, 2013|5 min read