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Nicholas McDonaldFilm Reviews/Hollywood
Tim Burton's classic 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is best understood as a disenchantment and reenchantment story.
Ross ByrdFilm Reviews/Hollywood
Disney's 2023 movie 'Wish' is best understood as a kind of inversion of a classic genie story with a deeply materialistic outlook.
Chris FogleFilm Reviews/Hollywood
The political contexts we live in inherently shape the way we relate to our neighbors and family.
Brian PellChurchFilm Reviews/Hollywood
The 2014 film 'Calvary' is a shocking and moving portrayal of forgiveness and pastoral care.
Jake MeadorCultureHealth & MedicineFilm Reviews/Hollywood
Two recent essays, one in New York and the other at The Free Press, further demonstrate how inhumane and starved for love our cultural moment truly is.
Adam CarringtonFilm Reviews/Hollywood
John Ford's forgotten western 'Three Godfathers' tells a haunting Christmas-themed story about sin and redemption and how a child brings restoration.
Samuel JamesFilm Reviews/HollywoodGender
The 1946 classic 'It's a Wonderful Life' offers an essential insight into male psychology that can help us address the crises facing men.
Zephram FosterFilm Reviews/HollywoodLiterature
Horror, by its very nature, points us to supernatural realities, whether intentional or not.
Robert BrownReadingFilm Reviews/HollywoodStar Wars
Yoda's correction of Luke in 'The Last Jedi' is suggestive of how we should all relate to classic texts and to our reading lives more generally.
Chris KrychoArtEvangelicalsFilm Reviews/Hollywoodnoah
For evangelicals, Noah works as a sort of theological-artistic Rorschach test. We seem to find it in what we expect given its origins and our disposition.
Brett McCrackenMediaTechnologyFilm Reviews/HollywoodCultureiPodMad MenWalt Whitmanthe cloudGravity
Does the iWorld of cloud-based media intake leave us feeling isolated, adrift? Do movies like "Gravity" and "All is Lost" reflect anxiety of the iPod era?
Brett McCrackenFilm Reviews/HollywoodCulturebodyHungerembodimentShameMichael Fassbendertheology of bodySolomon Northrup
Steve McQueen's films--Hunger (2008), Shame (2011), and 12 Years a Slave (2013)--each depict visceral, sometimes brutal explorations of human embodiment.