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 [...]
Richard Lindsay undertakes the daunting task of reviewing the entire second and third seasons of BBC’s supernatural series, Being Human.
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.
It’s our pleasure to welcome new contributor Tony Mills to the Pop Theology team. Tony is a PhD graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary and, well, I’ll just let him tell you more about himself in the questionnaire after the jump. Welcome Tony! I know everyone’s going to enjoy your contributions.
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.
Move over Bill Compton. Step aside Edward Cullen. There’s a new sheriff…er, vampire…in town, and he’s not a conscience-addled downer either. Skinner Sweet, the preeminent bloodsucker in the American Vampire series is as vicious a vampire as you’re likely to find. The product of Scott Snyder’s imagination and fueled by the twisted vision of Stephen [...]
