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Interstellar: Thoughtful sci-fi delivers love, evil, and a black hole
by Ted Giese Christopher Nolan’s new film Interstellar is more like his 2010 film Inception than his trilogy of Batman movies. It’s both cerebral and emotionally intense. This is no Star Trek, Star Wars space opera (space-soap-opera); Interstellar is a more “hard” sci-fi film in…
Annabelle: Bad Theology All Dolled Up
by Ted Giese Annabelle is the follow-up to James Wan’s horror film The Conjuring. This time out, Wan is a producer and not the director; Annabelle is directed by Wan’s cinematographer from The Conjuring, John R. Leonetti. The Conjuring introduced viewers to a creepy doll…
Reviewing Boyhood: What if the moment is seizing you?
by Ted Giese Richard Linklater, in his film Boyhood, asks the question, “What if you aren’t seizing the moment in life—what if the moment is seizing you?” Boyhood is a unique film shot over 12 years that tells the story of a young boy, Mason,…
Who ya gonna call again?
by Ted Giese “When the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were terrified, and said, ‘It is a ghost!’ and they cried out in fear” (Matthew 14:36). It wasn’t a ghost, though: it was Jesus. In fact, Jesus hadn’t even gone to the…
Hercules: not so strong on screen this time
by Ted Giese The new Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson 2014 film Hercules fits somewhere between Brad Pitt’s anti-supernatural, sword-and-sandal 2004 epic Troy and the cheesy, zany, over-the-top Kevin Sorbo 1990s television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. This new iteration of the Greek hero opens with…
In review: Transformers 4 Age of Extinction
by Ted Giese If someone says the word “transformer” and the first thing that comes to mind is an electrical device in a covered box outside your house quietly transferring energy between two or more circuits, then the knowledge there’s a movie called Transformers 4…
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