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…
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Musicals and the Soundtrack of Faith
It was Christmas Day 2014 and my daughter, Cadence, and I were settling into our seats in the theater. Just shy of three years old, her feet dangled above from…
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A Few Thoughts On Using the Force
I’d like to open the comments of this article to anyone who wishes to confess that they’ve tried to use the Force. Maybe you haven’t found yourself up-side-down like Luke…
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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…
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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…
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Why Fantasy?
Until the last decade or so, good genre films were hard to come by. In the days of video rental stores, the fantasy and science fiction aisles were full of…
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Trauma Follows
In David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows, a young woman named Jay (Maika Monroe) has a sexual encounter with her crush, Hugh (Jake Weary), only to find that he has a…
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The Least of These
There are a few seminal films from my childhood. Jurassic Park was a big one. Star Wars definitely left a mark too. But the first one I remember before either…
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Back to Brokeback Mountain
Personally, I wouldn’t have guessed that things would have moved so fast — not ten years ago. Back then I wasn’t even quite sure where I stood on the issue…
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A Postmodern Guide to Absolute Truth
A few weeks ago, I had a revelation. Age of Ultron just hit theaters as I hit the road for a friend’s wedding, and I found myself discussing the film…
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