Tag: C.S. Lewis

  • The Last Black Man in San Francisco

    The Last Black Man in San Francisco

    At the end of the day, we’re all just looking for a place to call home. Movies have long wrestled with this sentiment and not just in a physical sense. Hitchcock’s characters don’t trust the people closest to them, and are often punished when they do. Kubrick finds humanity and depravity in the cosmos just…

  • Mully

    Mully

    Mully is a documentary that tells the story of the extraordinary life of Charles Mully. Mully’s story is so impossible that if you pitched it to a studio, they’d tell you to try telling a true story with some elements of reality in it. Come to think of it, if you pitched Mully’s story to your…

  • Is the Theology of ‘The Shack’ Heretical?

    Is the Theology of ‘The Shack’ Heretical?

    Heresy. Is there any word more feared among Christians? No one who takes their faith seriously wants to be accused of teaching false doctrine and leading others astray. Scripture takes false teaching seriously. Second Timothy 4:3 says, “For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead to suit their…

  • Love and Friendship / Bad Moms

    Love and Friendship / Bad Moms

    A couple of films were released this summer, and they did not have a Giant Beam of Light extending from the sky to the earth. I was pretty sure I wasn’t the only person who would have observed it, and alas, I am not. This guy calls the Giant Beam of Light the “cargo shorts…

  • Wes Anderson and the Either/Or

    Wes Anderson and the Either/Or

    Blake wrote of the marriage of Heaven and Hell. If I have written of their Divorce, this is not because I think of myself as a fit antagonist for so great a genius, nor even because I feel at all sure that I know what he meant. But in some sense or other the attempt…

  • Dead Poets Society

    Dead Poets Society

    Poets, like prophets, are said to be guided by a muse, in some cases THE muse. In Ireland it was thought that poets, especially the great poets, folk healers, and others with knowledge beyond that of the common world were taken by the trouping faeries for seven years only to return gifted in their own…

  • Is Indiana Jones a Hero?

    Is Indiana Jones a Hero?

    There were three fictional characters I wanted to be when I was young: Fox Mulder, Han Solo, and Indiana Jones. They were everything I wasn’t — cool and confident, always up for adventure, and irresistible to the ladies. Mulder and Solo faded with time, but Jones stuck with me. He wasn’t an outcast like Mulder…

  • Calvary and the Christian Cinema Crisis

    Calvary and the Christian Cinema Crisis

    Last week, after a Good Friday service, I watched a Christian movie. Every good movie contains truth, but some go even further and explicitly proclaim the way of Jesus. I call these “Christian” movies. Unfortunately, most of them are terrible. This one wasn’t. This one was Calvary.  Calvary tells the story of a village priest…