Somewhere Beyond the Barricade

Kate and I saw Les Miserables tonight, the new film starring Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, and Russell Crowe. It is a truly stunning movie. The director, his crew, and these talented actors were able to take the spectacle of the stage show and translate it into a remarkably intimate story. Kate and...

December 27th, 2012 | Featured, Film | Read More

Ghost World

At first, Ghost World seems to be an “edgy” comedy about two immaturely misanthropic teenagers and their middle-finger-to-the-world snarkiness. A very young Scarlett Johansson and American Beauty’s Thora Birch play besties Rebecca and Enid, girls just finishing high school and always ready with...

October 23rd, 2012 | Blog, Essays, Film | Read More

Are you Hellbound?

If you want to start a heated debate, start a conversation about hell. For many Christians, what one believes about hell and who goes there is a driving force for the need to evangelize and convert family, friends, and strangers alike. Hell is not a new topic, but it certainly is one over which the...

October 16th, 2012 | Essays, Film | Read More

Redemption in Gotham: A Dark Knight Dialogue

Eulectus. So, Cuidario, The Dark Knight Rises has been getting some good buzz. What did you think of it? Cuidario. Maybe you’d better tell me what you thought, first. Eulectus. Well, don’t scoff, but I liked it. In general, I’ve really appreciated how directly realistic Christopher Nolan...

September 4th, 2012 | Essays, Film | Read More

Darkest Before Dawn: A Review of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

You’ve got to wonder the sort of pressure Christopher Nolan felt upon being handed the job of directing Batman Begins. Until then, Nolan’s only notable productions were the tricky, murky noir Memento, and Insomnia, a remake of the Norwegian film. Memento was made on a budget of $9 million, child’s...

August 30th, 2012 | Essays, Film | Read More

Harry Potter and the Feckless Seminarian

NOTE: This week the Baptist Seminary of Kentucky is celebrating its tenth year of educating and preparing students for ministry. I enrolled during the winter term of BSK’s first year (2002-2003) and graduated in 2007. In honor of the seminary’s 10th birthday, here is a musing (as published...

August 24th, 2012 | Blog, Film | Read More

Men in Black 3, Reviewed.

The easiest way for me to recommend Men in Black 3 (which opened yesterday) is to say that the queasy feeling I had in my stomach ten years ago while watching Men in Black 2 was completely absent. I laughed. I didn’t check my watch (phone). It kept me in my seat and amused for its running...

July 26th, 2012 | Essays, Film | Read More

Girl Porn: Magic Mike and 50 Shades of Grey

They said that Twilight was girl porn, ha! Now they get to see what Girl Porn really looks like. Currently it looks like the movie, Magic Mike and the Erotica book, 50 Shades of Grey. Where Twilight had shirtless beef cake guys honoring virginity until marriage. Magic Mike has a penis enlargement...

July 17th, 2012 | Essays, Film | Read More

The Descendants: A Review

“My friends on the mainland think just because I live in Hawaii, I live in paradise, like a permanent vacation. We’re all just out here, sipping Mai Tais, shaking our hips, catching waves. Are they insane? Do they think we are immune to life? How can they possibly think our families are less screwed...

July 10th, 2012 | Essays, Film | Read More

Prometheus

“And Yahweh was sorry that he had made humankind on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So Yahweh said, ‘I will blot out from the earth the human beings I have created—people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.’” ~ Genesis...

July 5th, 2012 | Essays, Film | Read More

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