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The Last Temptation of Christ with Dr. David Bennett (Podcast)
Read more: The Last Temptation of Christ with Dr. David Bennett (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Dr. David Bennett is a post-doctoral research fellow in theology and ethics at the University of Oxford and he’s the author of A War of Loves: The Unexpected Story of a Gay Activist Discovering Jesus (published by Zondervan). In our conversation we review and discuss the portrayal of Jesus’s…
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Disaster Films & The Bible with Dr. Michelle Fletcher (podcast)
Read more: Disaster Films & The Bible with Dr. Michelle Fletcher (podcast)In this episode we turn from our series on Jesus films to discuss the intertextual relationship of Disaster Films and the Bible as an epilogue to our Summer series with Dr. Michelle Fletcher, who used film theory to analyze citations of the Hebrew Bible in Revelation in her book, Reading Revelation as Pastiche: Imitating the…
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Mary Magdalene in Jesus Films with Dr. Siobhán Jolley (Podcast)
Read more: Mary Magdalene in Jesus Films with Dr. Siobhán Jolley (Podcast)Continuing our series on Jesus films, we are joined in this episode by Dr. Siobhán Jolley to discuss the representation of Mary Magdalene. Dr. Jolley recently completed her PhD at the University of Manchester with a thesis entitled, “Reimaging the Magdalene: Liberative Reception Criticism and the Counter-Reformation Magdalene.” In our conversation Dr. Jolley talks to…
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100 Bible Films with Matthew Page (Podcast)
Read more: 100 Bible Films with Matthew Page (Podcast)In this episode we’re kicking off a Summer series on Jesus films! Today we’re joined by Matthew Page to talk about his new book, 100 Bible Films (published by The British Film Institute with Bloomsbury). In our conversation, Matthew talks about the history of movies according to Bible films. He highlights the ways that Bible…
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Asian-American Representation in Film with Abel Vang (Podcast)
Read more: Asian-American Representation in Film with Abel Vang (Podcast)In this episode we discuss Asian-American Representation in Film with Abel Vang. Abel Vang is an awarded independent film producer, director, writer, and Assistant Professor of Entertainment Producing at Biola University. Some of his major film credits include: What Lies Below, Bedeviled, and the forthcoming, They Live In The Grey. Over the course of the…
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Dune Movie Review with Matthew William Brake (Podcast)
Read more: Dune Movie Review with Matthew William Brake (Podcast)In this episode we review the new Dune film by Denis Villeneuve with Matthew William Brake, the series editor for the Theology and Pop Culture series published by Fortress and Lexington Press. Over the course of our conversation we talk about our appreciation of the film, how it did as an adaptation of Frank Herbert’s…
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Art & Film with Dr. Kutter Callaway (Podcast)
Read more: Art & Film with Dr. Kutter Callaway (Podcast)Concluding our Art & Culture series with our fifth and final episode, we turn to discuss the artistic nature of film with Dr. Kutter Callaway, who is Associate Professor of Theology and the co-director of Reel Spirituality at Fuller Seminary. With the 93rd Annual Academy Awards ceremony (“the Oscars”) just around the corner, we discuss…
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Jaws is the Most Relevant 4th of July Film To Watch This Weekend
Read more: Jaws is the Most Relevant 4th of July Film To Watch This WeekendDuring much of quarantine I was helping to co-run an “Equipping Hour” class at my church (our version of Adult Sunday School). The class was called “The Gospel According to Oscar,” which I co-led with my good friend J. D. O’Brien, a filmmaker, documentarian, and videographer (check out his documentary about homelessness in Minneapolis called…
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Support Indie Filmmaking: “After the Gunflint”
Read more: Support Indie Filmmaking: “After the Gunflint”What is it about films like The Revenant and 127 Hours that grips us so much? One of my buddies (J. D. O’Brien) out here in the Twin Cities is a local filmmaker. His first major film was a documentary called Out in the Cold, which you can check out on Amazon Prime. Out in the Cold looks…
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Mother May I?
Read more: Mother May I?SPOILERS AHEAD! RUN FOR THE HILLS! Darren Aronofsky’s new film, mother!, is absolutely stunning. I was mesmerized and blown away. Let me say at the outset that one’s enjoyment of this movie is almost entirely based upon two factors: (a) knowing as little about the film as possible before seeing it, and (b) actually figuring out…