I’ve decided in response to the current administration’s decision to ban refugees from Libya, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, I am going to watch (and maybe write about)… Read more 120 Days: Syria and The White Helmets →
One of my favorite genres of movies is what I like to call the Sunday Evening Flick. This is a movie that most of the time you don’t think about… Read more Rewatch: The Fifth Element →
This is the third entry in what has so far been a monthly series of rewatching old movies and judging them comparitively against my first reactions and how they have… Read more Rewatch: (500) Days of Summer →
I have distinct memories of being the only person in sixth grade who had not seen The Matrix–well actually there was one other girl if we’re being honest–point being this… Read more Rewatch: The Matrix →
16 year olds were not the target audience of Disney’s smash hit High School Musical. We were out of range of Disney’s programming by this point–Even Stevens, Lizzie McGuire, and… Read more Rewatch: High School Musical →
If you’ve been following along, you may have seen the 12 or so best of 2014 lists I’ve made so far this year. Lists are fun and often easy ways to think about what popular culture has been consumed and at times can lead to deeper insight about what we enjoyed and why we enjoyed it. Sometimes various themes and trends can be noticed and in thinking about the movies I’ve seen this year one theme has appeared across a fairly wide margin of movies. I wanted to reflect on… Read more Counting the Cost: The Theme of Sacrifice in the Films of 2014 →
When I first heard that Captain Phillips was going to be made, it should be known that I was taking a class titled “Micro-Issues in Relief and Development” and had… Read more Captain Phillips and Global Consequences →
Blue Like Jazz is all the latest rage around the world of art-loving Christians, not necessarily for its cinematic achievement or artistic prowess, but rather for the anomaly that it… Read more Blue Like Jazz (2012) →
