Meet Joe Black

I just watched this for the first time.  It is an absolutely perfect movie, that is until the final scene.
There’s no way you resolve something like the realization that you gave your heart to Death, and they should have ended the thing with Pitt and Hopkins walking over the bridge.  It would have been immortal [...]

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Iron Man

With Jeff Bridges as supporting actor, this is perhaps the best comic-book movie I’ve seen.  Robert Downey Jr. is rad too.

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Seven Samurai

This is one long movie. I had to see it because it makes all of the “best ever” lists, and it was a good show. The camera work was beautiful, and it just felt cool. Still though, who has 3.5 hrs these day?
The most striking aspect of Seven Samurai is the final [...]

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The Forbidden Kingdom

I just saw The Forbidden Kingdom. This is a great film. There are lots of throwbacks to the classics of kung-fu and a good mixture of action and humor. There’s a clear spiritual dimension to the film, as well, even as it isn’t necessarily a Christian one. The parallels were interesting [...]

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Metropolis

I’m showing Metropolis to my class next week. I bought the restored authorized edition, and watched it again last night. This is such an incredible movie.
The newest edition is still missing scenes. I don’t think the original can ever be restored. The original version is said to have been 210 [...]

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Zombies and Salvation

I Am Legend was originally a book by Richard Matheson in 1954. It featured an air-borne disease that turned people into vampires. It used the apocalyptic theme to address social, ethical, and religious questions, with its twist ending, where the vampires become the normal and the humans become the legend.
Since its inception, I Am [...]

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Some Reflections on Juno

I saw Juno when it came out in theaters, and I have not seen it since. A friend asked me about my thoughts on it after watching it on video, and I put them down on paper. They aren’t a proper “review,” but simply some observations. Here’s what I got:
I think the [...]

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Expelled

I saw Expelled last night. It was really good. Though Intelligent Design is to Darwinism what Deism is to Atheism, it is still helpful to see the scientific weaknesses pointed out in argumentation.
It is also very intriguing to see that many of the leading lights of Darwinism are all apostates from the Christian [...]

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Babette’s Chiasm

Babette’s Feast is a delightful movie. The central message is that God is good and we know he is good because his creation is good. It’s a beautiful picture of the gospel. Here’s a short outline I drew up.
A. Introduction: The Church does well with the leadership [...]

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No Country for Old Men Discussion Questions

So the first movie that I showed the class was the recent Academy Award-winning No Country for Old Men. To me this is the perfect movie for this sort of class. It is powerful, but comprehensible. Indeed, it ought to be relatively easy to understand the point of No Country. Here [...]

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