Category: FEATURED
Hey dinosaur lovers! We “spared no expense” for a podcast review of Jurassic Park. In fact, we brought in a bonafide (bone-afide?) dinosaur expert, paleontologist and professor at Liberty University Dr. Marcus Ross. It’s really the…
I must have been in the wrong mood when I saw Big Hero 6 in the theater. My recollection was “meh” but when I viewed it again for a Film and Theology event for a…
by guest reviewer Andrew Thompson Does “the man upstairs” desire us to simply follow instructions, going about our days and routines, thinking “everything is awesome”? Or is he indeed a master-builder who has given us…
A revenge-fueled mutant man befriends an optimistic dreamer who can read and control minds. Their views of mankind’s nature and possibilities for the future come under sharp scrutiny and stand polarized as they deal with…
Love.
Obsession.
Delusion.
A devastating and heartrending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzlies in Alaska. I had a chance to look at this documentary and discuss the idea that – while we might think Treadwell is very different from us – we are perhaps more alike than we might want to consider.
The audio exploration of below contains spoilers and assumes you’ve seen the film as we look deeper into the timeless truths and applicability.
Whether you cross decades or cross the pond, you can find shared shenanigans, duplicated drudgery, synchronized self-absorption, and facsimilied foolishness. Office politics and the cubicle life play themselves out in some amazing comedies which don’t…
When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men, led by Professor Charles Xavier, and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organized under Xavier’s former ally, Magneto.
While the final chapter of the X-Men trilogy met with mixed reviews, the overall arc makes for some interesting conversations and the choices made by characters – particularly Wolverine and Rogue – are revealing. In many ways, the trilogy is THEIR story.
We had a chance to unpack the X-Men universe – the comics, the characters, their long history – and then zero in on the particulars of this incarnation at a Film and Theology event in North Seattle…
Serenity is the amazing conclusion to Joss Whedon’s cult classic (and short-lived) television series Firefly. Set in the year 2517, the story follows the adventures of the renegade crew of a “Firefly-class” spaceship as they struggle with both…
The story of James Braddock, a supposedly washed up boxer who came back to become a champion and an inspiration in the 1930s, has important narrative themes that I was asked to speak on at…