The darkness around Piper is the zero-sum power dynamics of prison. What power one inmate gains is necessarily ceded from another. But the economy of God’s kingdom is not finite.
The darkness around Piper is the zero-sum power dynamics of prison. What power one inmate gains is necessarily ceded from another. But the economy of God’s kingdom is not finite.
The audience was almost expecting it; they weren’t laughing nervously as audiences often do when something happens in a movie that might be considered a little too gay for mainstream sensibilities. They were with the characters, enjoying their interplay, smiling at the fact that they were happy. And if they kissed – not bothered at all…
The Webb family is setting off on a one year, fifty state road trip. Find out why.
Rev. Peter Malone explores a few “Jesus movies” made by Protestants in the 1930s and 1940s under the Hays Code.
What might Malick’s early films, the films that made him a legend, have to tell us about myth-making?
Dr. Tommy Givens joins the podcast to discuss the stories we tell about immigration.
Here then is the core problem that Alive Inside identifies. Music may have privileged access to our “soul,” but there is little room in the modern world for thinking of people in terms of their “soul”
Avril Speaks has launched a new project, Sisters – the Web Series. Why a web series and what is it about? Listen it to find out.
Destin Daniel Cretton’s two feature films, I Am Not A Hipster and Short Term 12, are widely praised above all for their sincerity. But where does that sincerity originate?
Love is in the air and in our digital worlds. Many recent films has explored this intersection.
Why are the X-Men movies so popular? What’s behind the mystique?
To rage violently against violence is no more effective than throwing gasoline on a fire. So I prefer to move beyond the language of war…
Is there anything good about the cultural force known as Godzilla?
Jonathan Stoner and Elijah Davidson discuss the late career documentaries of Werner Herzog.
If all I should ever expect from films is that they help me play, fellowship and relax, then on one hand The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is a total success. But if film’s contribution to my spiritual life is simply in the world of play, than I have to ask myself if the content of the latest Spider-Man flick should be entertaining for me…
John Henry Summerour, Dr. Bill Roozeboom, and Elijah Davidson discuss grief, loss, and Sahkanaga.
Perhaps this truth about sex is partly why so many movies are obsessed with it. There’s poignancy in the way films return to this topic with palpable yearning, not only for the immediate act itself, but also for the wholly good gift it was once meant to be…
Is The Amazing Spider-Man 2 about more than setting up its sequel?
The point of film criticism is self-reflection on the part of the critic, and an invitation into a spacious place where audience and creator pursue the same thing: as the Holocaust-surviving philosopher says in the magnificent exploration of moral choice Crimes and Misdemeanors says, the hope that we might understand more.
We look to young adult dystopias to tell us what to look forward to for humanity on the latest Reel Spirituality Podcast.
