Film Archives

Before we go, Kevin and Sarah have a conversation about their ethos of faithful movie criticism, bringing the podcast full circle.

Oppenheimer was looking for more than assurances of a peaceful, weapons-free future. He was looking for absolution.

Kevin and Sarah get to the bottom of the mystery of both this week’s movies: Branagh’s A Haunting in Venice and Altman’s Gosford Park.

We must give ourselves grace and accept that we will not always get life right, and that is perfectly okay because the beauty of life is getting back up and trying again.

If knowing the tale’s end can transform the storyline of a Tim Burton comedy, imagine the implications for the Christian life?

Sarah and Kevin review Emma Seligman’s movie about high schoolers who start a fight club then Howard Hawks’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Kevin and Sarah catch up with Laurel Parmet’s The Starling Girl then Guillermo Del Toro’s 2001 ghost story The Devil’s Backbone.

Believing in yourself (as in the talents God has given you) coupled with believing that God will take care of you, is a taste of unadulterated faith.

Sarah and Kevin explore a love seeking dystopian set of movies: Landscape with Invisible Hand, then Charlie Chaplin’s 1936 film Modern Times.

It’s fitting that Oppenheimer feels so contradictory, because the film is fascinated by such contradictions.

Sarah and Kevin vs. Dracula… on a boat. This week, they review The Last Voyage of the Demeter and Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 film Das Boot.

We are called to embrace our physicality, offering to God the sorrows and the sweetness of physicality.

Kevin and Sarah review Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem then the magical world of Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle.

This discovery of getting to know someone and liking her, rather than dismissing her out of hand is the real, overarching lesson of the film.

Mad science is afoot in this week’s double feature. They Cloned Tyrone, and 1960’s French horror film, Eyes Without a Face.

The desolate future envisioned in the Mad Max films lays bare the emptiness which always threatens the human effort to build something meaningful.