Broken but Healing
As would be expected, Pedro Almodovar‘s latest film, Broken Embraces, is an alluring mix of beautiful filmmaking and captivating storytelling. The ways in…
FROM ANGELS TO ALIENS: A Review
In keeping with my recent academic obsession with the undead, I came across Lynn Schofield Clark‘s From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media,…
The Time is Now
Recent Pop Theology contributor and self-proclaimed Bare Naked Ladies addict (seriously, we need to conduct an intervention), Jessica Margrave Schirm, reviews their latest…
Save the Next One
In preparation for our trip to Belgium next month, my wife wanted to watch In Bruges, and since I absolutely love the film,…
VAMPIRE GOD: A Review
In preparation for an upcoming conference on vampires and the undead in popular culture, I’ve been catching up on vampire literature. Via Theofantastique,…
Forget LOST, Get BAD
Forget Lost, AMC’s Breaking Bad is currently the best television series going right now…by a mile. In fact, the first 5-10 minutes of…
Justified is Righteous
In one of the concluding lines to the first episode of the new FX series, Justified, Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), an on-the-ropes Deputy…
Soul Storage
Last week, I wrote a short review of Seconds and the “what-if-ness” of cinema. This weekend, I watched a recent dark comedy, Cold…
Filming Revolutions: Film History as Church History?
After the jump, check out a video of my presentation at the Theology After Google conference last week in Claremont, CA. Below the…