No Third Chances…
“What if” is the basis of cinema. All filmmakers, to some degree, ask themselves this question. Their success, in part, relies on their…
THE FIFTH ELEMENT: The Gospel According to Luc
Marion Grau, Professor of Theology at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, makes her first (and hopefully not last!) contribution to Pop…
Creative Gaming
Thankfully, in the recent publication, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God, editor Craig Detweiler and his contributors forego the well-worn arguments…
In Defense of AVATAR: Or Why Mark Driscoll Just Doesn’t Get It
Yesterday, a friend directed me to an article about a recent sermon by Mark Driscoll (pastor of Mars Hill Church) in which he…
Shut Out the Past
Martin Scorsese has provided us with some of the most memorable films, and moments, in the history of cinema, many of which demand…
The Hound of Heaven
As the days and weeks approach, we’ll start to hear more and more about the “best movie(s) of the year.” To hear about…
Swing and a Miss…
After watching Creation, the film supposedly about Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, one is left wondering what all the American fuss…
Moments of Grace…
Richard Lindsay reviews A Single Man after the jump.
Crazy Good…
Crazy Heart is this year’s The Wrestler, and that’s not a bad thing. Without the violence and the real-life comeback story of a…