With all the talk surrounding Harold Camping, the failure of his March 21st rapture prediction, and his new sure-to-fail October 21st prediction, now is the perfect time to watch Transcendent Man, a documentary about futurist, inventor, and prophet, Raymond Kurzweil.

Tony Mills reviews Morgan Spurlock’s latest documentary and considers the ways in which product placement and the companies behind them have begun to make our choices for us. Check it out after the jump.

Ordinarily, when observing portraits, most of us might not think about the potentially transformative relationship that could take place between the artist and her subject. Unless instructed otherwise, we most likely dwell on aesthetic concerns, or, if the work is explicitly religious, then we might expand our approach to it accordingly. However, the potential for [...]

New Pop Theology contributor Tony Mills reviews Thor, the latest Marvel single-character blockbuster leading up to next year’s hero-studded team up movie, The Avengers. Check it out after the jump…if you don’t mind spoilers.

Conversations about violence, justice, revenge, and healing have no doubt been taking place across social media, in workplaces, homes, and classrooms around the world over the past 48 hours. A recent under-the-radar indie film, Shotgun Stories, reminds us that violence, rather than ending violence, simply begets more of it.

Director Kevin Smith once said (in the documentary This Film is Not Yet Rated) that if he were in charge of the movie ratings system, he’d automatically give an R rating to any film that included violence against women. If this is his primary criteria, then Smith would most likely have rated the French horror [...]

New Pop Theology contributor Tony Mills reviews the recent Simon Pegg/Nick Frost comedy, Paul. Check it out after the jump.

In his latest article, Richard Lindsay engages in something of a review/conversation of the new film Of Gods and Men with Mike Campos, a fellow, recent PhD grad at the Graduate Theological Union.

Pop Theology contributor Richard Lindsay reviews The Adjustment Bureau after the jump.

You’d be forgiven for thinking that a movie called Monsters would feature, well, numerous monstrous characters, creatures, or beings terrorizing their human counterparts. If that’s what you like in your monster movies, then Gareth Edwards‘ Monsters might not be the film for you. However, if you like more intimate, suspenseful films that do not sacrifice [...]