Review: Tarantino and Theology
Jonathan L. Walls and Jerry Walls, editors. Tarantino and Theology. Los Angeles, CA: Sideshow Media Group, 2015, 264. pps., $19.99 / £13.02. When dealing…
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The Saints we Make: David Foster Wallace on the Big Screen
Theologian Benjamin Myers argues that modern western culture, like our cultural forbearers, remains rooted in sainthood. Instead of wearing habits and living in monasteries,…
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Cinderella: A Problematic Tale of ‘Kindness’
In the recent Cinderella (2015), directed by Kenneth Branagh (Thor, Hamlet), Disney reminds viewers of the age-old story, where a beautiful young maiden ascends…
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Resurrecting the Country Priest: Approaching the Parish in Film and Literature
The shepherd’s brow, fronting forked lightning, owns The horror and the havoc and the glory Of it…. —G. M. Hopkins, ‘The Shepherd’s Brow,’ 1918….
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Then Man Created the Heavens and the Earth: What Chappie and Ex Machina Reveal About Our Desire for Power and Progress
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. (Gen 1:27, NIV) God created the…
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American Sniper: Exaggerated Superheroes and the Reality of Violence
After bellowing his famous “Freedom!” cry, William Wallace dies following a gruesome series of physical and emotional tortures. The elderly Private Ryan breaks down…
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On Interstellar and Fr. William Lynch, S.J.
In Christopher Nolan’s newest eye- and mind-bending space odyssey, Interstellar, there is plenty of action but also much to aid in silent contemplation. Nolan’s…
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Review: Paul Tillich and the Possibility of Revelation through Film
Jonathan Brant, Paul Tillich and the Possibility of Revelation through Film. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, xi + 235pp., 270pp. with appendices and end…
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Reflecting Calvary: What it Means to be Truly Human
What does it mean to be truly human? Such a query provokes a host of diverging responses ranging from the empiricist’s “propagation of the…
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