Tag: Fear

  • Scream Unto the Lord

    Scream Unto the Lord

    When’s the last time your body demanded movement? If you’ve watched Ari Aster’s Hereditary at any point in the recent past, perhaps you’ll have an answer. There’s a moment in the modern horror classic that demands movement from the viewer, be it internal or external. Alex Wolff’s Peter Graham is racing down a dark country…

  • First Man / Free Solo

    First Man / Free Solo

    Our audio equipment failed us in October, but we’re back and better than ever. Welcome to our first double feature podcast! That’s right, this month you get two movies for the price of one. Starting things off is First Man. After launching two masterpieces into the universe with Whiplash and La La Land, director Damien…

  • It

    It

    Stephen King doesn’t typically make the “must read” list for Christians. On the surface, his tales appear dark and deranged, but a deeper look reveals a different story. Regardless of whether King is a practicing Christian (he declared himself one on his website, but has since pushed back on the label), his work speaks for…

  • Alien: Covenant / Spiderman: Homecoming / It Comes at Night / The Big Sick

    Alien: Covenant / Spiderman: Homecoming / It Comes at Night / The Big Sick

    At Cinema Faith, we wish we could provide feature-length reviews for every movie that hits theaters. Unfortunately, some films fall through the cracks. Welcome to another edition of Mini-Review Roundup where we present smaller reviews of several movies at once. This month we review Alien: Covenant, Spiderman: Homecoming, It Comes at Night, and The Big…

  • Sing

    Sing

    Buster Moon desperately wants to save his theater… and himself. When he was a young koala, his parents took him to see a stage production in which a sensational Suffolk sheep named Nana Noodleman (voiced by Jennifer Hudson) sang about “finding a way home…” and “carrying a weight” as she performed a graceful, operatic rendition…

  • Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

    Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

    While it can’t be denied that fatigue exists in this new world of movie universes — Marvel, DC, Middle Earth, Star Wars, Star Trek, etc. — there’s also something to be said for familiarity. For every let down like The Hobbit, there’s a welcome return like The Force Awakens. And that makes sense: People like…

  • Ghostbusters / Weiner / Deadpool / Zootopia

    Ghostbusters / Weiner / Deadpool / Zootopia

    At Cinema Faith, we wish we could provide feature-length reviews for every movie that hits theaters. Unfortunately, some films fall through the cracks. Welcome to another edition of Mini-Review Roundup where we present smaller reviews of several movies at once. This month we review Ghostbusters, Weiner, Deadpool, and Zootopia.   Ghostbusters   The reaction to…

  • The Maze Runner

    The Maze Runner

    I pretty quickly decided this wasn’t my type of movie thanks to the trailer – a bunch of teenage boys stuck in some kind of maze getting mauled by sci-fi machines. Written by James Dashner, The Maze Runner is a novel initially published in 2009 and developed into a movie in 2014 by 20th Century…