Tag: Jesus

  • Room

    Room

    The Oscar season is upon us. Right out of the gate is Room, a powerful story of a mother’s love for her son in the face of unimaginable circumstances. Listen in as we discuss one of the best films of the year.

  • It’s a Wonderful Life

    It’s a Wonderful Life

    If you’re looking to gratify a sense of nostalgia, or if you want to be stimulated by a film that has a good old-fashioned love story, or if you have an itch to see someone stick it to the man and watch an underdog fight the powers-that-be, or if you have a soft spot for…

  • The Art of Horror

    The Art of Horror

    Horror lost its way with the reigns of Saw and Hostel, but the tide has turned.  A new crop of filmmakers have returned the genre back to its roots. Listen in as we discuss It Follows and the revival of horror as art.

  • Crimson Peak

    Crimson Peak

    There’s a point in every scary movie where things fall apart and they cease to be scary. Depending on what you’re actually afraid of, that could come very quickly. In Crimson Peak, the new ghost story from Mexican fantasist Guillermo del Toro, more than half the film is spent sans ghosts. By the time they…

  • More Than Images: The Power of a Film’s Score

    More Than Images: The Power of a Film’s Score

    Prior to diving into this essay, I feel a need to quantify and qualify the topic. First, I am not a musical expert. My knowledge is limited to having played trumpet in grade school, and messing around with a bass guitar for most of the time period following the end of my trumpeting days. Also,…

  • Last Holiday

    Last Holiday

    “Pity The Blind,” the sign entreats, hung around the neck of a violinist, his eyes closed, as he plays a poignantly displacing melody; the notes are fitful and accepting, braided into a single cord that pulls you, meekly, steadily. This will be the key to Last Holiday, but we don’t know it yet. We also…

  • Are Christian Movies Getting Better?

    Are Christian Movies Getting Better?

    Listen in as we review War Room and ask the question: Are Christian movies getting better?

  • Interview with Greg and Teia Batiansila

    Interview with Greg and Teia Batiansila

    At Cinema Faith, we’re not too fond of Christian movies. Truth flows naturally from good stories, but gets suffocated by an agenda. Sermons are different than stories – Christian filmmakers need to understand the distinction. Today, we’d like to present two that do. Meet Greg and Teia Batiansila, a father-daughter duo reversing the stigma of…

  • The Theology of Artificial Intelligence

    The Theology of Artificial Intelligence

    To begin with I must confess that I am a pastor who is a huge fan of science, especially physics and theoretical future science, which also makes me a pretty big geek on sci-fi movies. Secondly (or fifthly), I’m also incredibly fascinated with the thought of artificial intelligence. That is – the possibility of “robots”…

  • The Place Beyond the Pines

    The Place Beyond the Pines

    We open to darkness and breathing. Then a man, pacing, flashing a switchblade. He stops, trades the knife for a coat, and leaves the room. We follow him through a noisy amusement park. Rides and lights glitter around him. People brush past. The man enters a tent as we hear his name announced. He mounts…