There can be no doubt that brothers Joel and Ethan Coen are perhaps two of the most original, visionary filmmakers working today. In fact, when they have run their course, their filmography will no doubt stand out as one of the greatest in American film history. If there is any credence to the auteur theory, [...]
Angelology is one of the latest entries in the recent spate of religious adventure fiction made most popular by Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. Danielle Trussoni‘s novel will unfortunately most likely not get the attention of its, in many ways, inferior predecessors, but it is one captivating summer read that [...]
Currently in theaters everywhere, you can go see a great Pixar film and even stick around for a fairly good one too. Pixar’s short animated films have been an entertaining throwback to the earlier days of cinema when a cartoon and a newsreel often preceded even live-action dramas, not just other animated features. Until now, [...]
A secular, humanist, non-practicing Jewish writer from New York takes a year-long tour through evangelical Christian pop-culture? Yeah…I know how that book’s going to turn out…or at least I thought I did. Daniel Radosh‘s Rapture Ready! Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture is one of the most insightful, entertaining books I’ve ever [...]
I absolutely love and am fascinated with apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic narratives. To me, they speak far more about our current theological, philosophical, and political state of affairs than they ever do about how it’s all going to go down in the end (which despite popular evangelical opinion is what they were always intended to do). [...]
(Hint: There is none.) Frequent Pop Theology contributor Richard Lindsay offers his take on the music video for Lady Gaga’s new song, “Alejandro,” after the jump. You can view the video here on the Pop Theology home page.
I’ve got a one sentence review of Splice, the latest sci-fi/horror film currently playing in theaters, but it doesn’t an article make. If you really want to read/hear it, you’ll have to swear you’re not planning on watching it…in theaters at least…because if I had to suffer through the film, you do too. For my [...]
Film critic Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle recently said that we are in a Golden Age of comedy. It’s hard to ignore, given the release of films like Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I Love You, Man, The Hangover, and now Get Him to the Greek, to name a few. While the latter, which released [...]
If any of you, like me, had tickets to U2′s second leg of their American 360 tour, then you were sorely disappointed to hear about the cancellation due to Bono’s surgery. Yet, last week’s release of their DVD, U2 360 at the Rose Bowl, the recording of last Fall’s record-setting concert, should help ameliorate that [...]
I have always admired and deeply respected army and hospital chaplains for their emotional and spiritual strength and their ability to stand with those who mourn during the sacred time and space of loss. The same could be said of those who must bear the actual bad news of the death of a loved one [...]
