Championship Mercy in Win or Lose (2025)
Pixar has always been a master engineer of, as Roger Ebert calls films, “machines that generate empathy.” Starting from their earliest SIGGRAPH short films, even the few clunkers of the…
The Binding and Loosing of Mickey Mouse
The Walt Disney Company‘s long road to becoming one of the most powerful, celebrated, and litigious entertainment companies on Earth actually began, not with a mouse, but with a rabbit. Inspired by…
The Legend of Zelda is getting a live-action film from Nintendo and Sony
Maze Runner director, Jurassic World writer, and no release date yet.
Reel World Theology regular Blake Collier has a beautiful piece in Mockingbird today:
https://mbird.com/literature/goodnight-noises-everywhere/
Goodnight Noises Everywhere - Mockingbird
The Liturgy of Goodnight Moon
CUT TO: EXT. PICKET LINE—DAY
It’s been quite a couple of months for labor and for Hollywood (both independently and together). We don’t have any WGA or SAG-AFTRA members on staff here (at least not yet—if you are a…
Imago Droid
Are the droids of the Star Wars universe sentient? As the world’s most popular space fantasy franchise podraces toward its fiftieth birthday, the question is only getting muddier. The ineffable rea…
Truth, Life, and God’s Word: Jesus Revolution
When it comes to the sub-genre of “faith-based film” (defined here as movies made by Christians for the church and/or with evangelistic intent), filmmakers often find themselves on two ends of a sp…
Vice and the Struggle for Power
I recently stumbled upon yet another one of those YouTube videos I love so much where an expert dissects and explains scenes from movies that represent their expertise. “Expert reacts” videos are a…
Redeeming Culture