Confessing a Story

Sep 03, 2010 No Comments by admin

When I get around to creating my list of the most spiritually significant films of 2010, Get Low will certainly be included and will most likely top the list.  My review of one of the best films you’re likely to see this year after the jump.

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A Review of “Movie Love: The Complete Reviews of Pauline Kael, 1988-1991″

Sep 01, 2010 1 Comment by admin

Pop Theology contributor Richard Lindsay provides a review of a collection of one of the most (in)famous film critics of all time, Pauline Kael.

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Demon Possession or Something Else?

Aug 23, 2010 No Comments by admin

My research into Contemporary Christian Cinema keeps turning up more and more films, many of which were straight to DVD releases.  Here are my thoughts on the latest one I’ve watched.

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Letters to God…Pornographic?

Aug 20, 2010 2 Comments

Possibility Pictures is one of the more recent Christian film production studios to emerge in a Post-Sherwood Pictures world.  Their first feature-length film, Letters to God, released in theaters earlier this year, and the DVD hit shelves earlier this month.  I think it’s time to create a new genre:  Christian Pornography.

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7 Women: A Review

Aug 18, 2010 No Comments

A couple of days ago, I posted a review of Peter E. Dans’ book, Christians in the Movies:  A Century of Saints and Sinners for Patheos’ Faith Forward blog.  Dans traces a representational arc that reveals Hollywoods’ portrayal of Christians as gradually moving from sacred to the scandalous from the 1920s to the 2000s.  Of [...]

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Saving a Genre

Aug 10, 2010 1 Comment

Over the past couple of years, I have frequently written and spoken about the potential of Sherwood Pictures to be a influential model for the future of Christian filmmaking.  This influence will come not only through their films, but in the ways in which other communities of faith their production strategies. The first church to [...]

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Being (Really) Human

Aug 09, 2010 No Comments

Pop Theology contributor Richard Lindsay reviews Being Human, the BBC vampire/ghost/werewolf series import currently on its second season on BBCA.

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Get A(n Extra) Life

Aug 03, 2010 2 Comments

Later this year, I’ll be presenting a paper on the ethical/theological/moral implications of video games.  As luck would have it, a public discussion over whether or not video games qualify as art broke out in on-line and print media over the past few months.  Film critic Roger Ebert oppossed this notion while arguments for it [...]

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Yes They Are…

Jul 26, 2010 No Comments

Pop Theology contributor Richard Lindsay and I were talking about reviews of mainstream films that feature gay and lesbian couples in lead roles and how reviewers often argue that these films aren’t about homosexuality or homsexuals but rather about human beings.  These reviews clearly hope to allay potential viewers’ fears about these films being “too [...]

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The Kids are Definitely NOT All Right

Jul 22, 2010 No Comments

It might be slightly twisted of me I know, but I love it when a film disturbs me.  Don’t get me wrong, I love a good inspirational story (maybe not as much as the next person), but there’s something about being physically, intellectually, or morally unsettled that, to me, is a potentially more rewarding experience.  [...]

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