Category: CineMUSINGS
musing on media, facts on film, commentary on culture, and more
In 2008 I was asked to write an article for Collide Magazine. In a lot of ways this treatise on story served as a primer for what would eventually become my book (published in 2012), and…
I was recently asked to speak at an apologetics conference in Alabama, and my first thought was “why”? I talk about movies and God as storyteller. After some thought, I realize that another way of…
If you’ve never heard of CRACKED.com, you don’t know what you’re missing. If you frequent CRACKED.com, shame on you:) Seriously, I stumbled upon one of their “After Hours” videos and, while there may be potentially…
“For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God…” – 2 Timothy 1:6 What is the gift YOU’VE been given, what does that mean, and what part do we play in stirring, fanning, or…
It’s been a crazy couple of weeks for the CinemaGuy. When Mark Glenn – pastor of The Fields Church in Bowral, Australia – and I started dreaming about a Cinemagogue trip down under, I don’t…
NOTE: Wolverine stabs a LOT of people. Just go back and watch X2, or read any number of Wolverine comics. However, as the new film opens, The Wolverine has given up his life of howling…
(Honestly, I don’t think Clark looks a day over 30.) Although there are a great number of combinant cultural factors why Superman has endured 75 years, celebrating his birthday today and waiting breathlessly for the…
“Greatness is never given: it is earned. So you work harder, dream bigger… chase, capture, and conquer history.” – John Cena, Wrestlemania 29 Legacy and redemption: these were the themes that emerged as catalyst and…
Roger Ebert understood the power of story. Before the internet had tubes, before Apple Trailers and Facebook, DVRs and XBox Live… before all the ways we can access movies and movie trailers… and before Metacritic…