This week, Blake and Joe introduce a new wild card segment called topic roulette! We each contributed ten things we know something about, we mixed them up on an ongoing list, and we roll the digital die to see what topic we have to riff on for a specific amount of time and then eventually …
So far, Annihilation is my second favorite movie of the year (right behind You Were Never Really Here, which you can read about here). And while I\’ve read plenty of excellent articles about how the movie thinks about self-destruction (particularly this piece for Vulture), I haven\’t read too much about the film\’s beauty, outside of …
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So far, Annihilation is my second favorite movie of the year (right behind You Were Never Really Here, which you can read about here). And while I\’ve read plenty of excellent articles about how the movie thinks about self-destruction (particularly this piece for Vulture), I haven\’t read too much about the film\’s beauty, outside of …
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It\’s been quite some time since I\’ve published one of these, but my latest Renewed Mind Movie Talk video essay is now available!In this episode, I take a look at the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical Jesus Christ Superstar, specifically the live NBC performance aired on Easter Sunday 2018.Raised in a fairly conservative …
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Because I\’m the sole writer, editor, and programmer (and, to be honest, viewer) of Renewed Mind Movie Talk, I\’ve only done movies I like. Sure, I\’ve skipped over some stranger flicks I enjoy in favor of something more popular, and thus more likely to gain viewers, but I haven\’t spent time on a movie I …
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Because I\’m the sole writer, editor, and programmer (and, to be honest, viewer) of Renewed Mind Movie Talk, I\’ve only done movies I like. Sure, I\’ve skipped over some stranger flicks I enjoy in favor of something more popular, and thus more likely to gain viewers, but I haven\’t spent time on a movie I …
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I\’ve been doing Renewed Mind Movie Talk for a while now, but I have to admit that I\’m not entirely thrilled with the results.I started this series with two goals: 1) to give Christians better tools for engaging with stories than the usual \”moral/immoral\” binary and 2) to foster empathy among evangelical Christians by exposing …
Oh man, I realize I never posted last week\’s video here. So here\’s the belated 8th episode of Renewed Mind Movie Talk: Spider-man 2: Power, Responsibility, Identity.In this episode, I talk about my favorite Spider-man movie (sorry, Homecoming), and how the film dramatizes an identity crisis.This identity crisis can help Christians think about our own …
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New episode of Renewed Mind Movie Talk!In this episode, we look at the last entry in the Cornetto Trilogy, a series of movies directed by Edgar Wright (Baby Driver) and featuring actor/writers Simon Pegg and Nick Frost: Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World\’s End (2013).The World\’s End is part midlife …
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New episode of Renewed Mind Movie Talk!In this episode, we look at the last entry in the Cornetto Trilogy, a series of movies directed by Edgar Wright (Baby Driver) and featuring actor/writers Simon Pegg and Nick Frost: Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World\’s End (2013).The World\’s End is part midlife …
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