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The Strangeness of Santa Cinema
This is the sixth in a multi-part article series running from November 1 to December 27. It discusses the themes and meaning of Christmas movies, digs into specific tropes, and unpacks the true nature of Christmas. The first, second, third, fourth, and fifth essays can be found here. December 6th has been annually celebrated since the Middle Ages as the Feast of St. Nicholas of Myra in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglican traditions.
Review – Dear Santa (2024) - Geeks Under Grace
The recent trailer for Dear Santa drew a brief negative reaction this past month before completely disappearing. Curiously, the film quietly dropped on Paramount+ over Thanksgiving week without fanfare and a mere handful of reviews, leaving no real splash in the busy holiday season. It’s not hard to see why. Despite being written and directed by Dumb And Dumber, Fever Pitch, and There’s Something About Mary veterans Peter and Bobby Farrelly, it didn’t warrant much response.
2024 Tabletop Game Holiday Gift Guide
This holiday season, we asked our 3 main tabletop writers to recommend 3 games so we can give you, dear readers, 12 solid recommendations. The stipulations are simple: each writer will recommend a lightweight game, a midweight game, and a personal favorite, which could be lightweight, midweight, or heavyweight. Moreover, each of these games should be readily available and released in the past 2 years.
Review - Conclave (2024)
2024’s awards season has already begun! With the 2025 Academy Awards just a few months away on March 2nd, Oscar buzz has already begun accumulating around upcoming films like Anora, Gladiator II, The Brutalist, Wicked, Challengers, and Dune II. Surprisingly, one of the year’s potential major contenders just dropped in late October.
Review – ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor! - Geeks Under Grace
Since I’ve been getting negative comments of late for reviewing allegedly grotesque, harmful content, it doesn’t seem like adding more wood to that fire will hurt me much. I respect my fellow Christians who have strict viewership requirements on what they like to expose themselves to and abide by lesser restrictions myself. Everyone must know what their limits are, and shows like South Park do not personally push me away from my convictions.
Review - Luigi's Mansion 2 HD - Geeks Under Grace
The Luigi’s Mansion spin-off series has become a mainstay of Nintendo’s modern output. With 3 main games, 2 remakes, an arcade title, and even vague rumors of a movie adaptation, it’s easy to forget that, before it was the mini-powerhouse it is today, Luigi’s Mansionwas a one-off title meant to kick off Nintendo’s entry into the sixth generation of consoles. And for a time, that looked like where it would stay.
Review – The Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot - Geeks Under Grace
Angel Studios continues to be the master of marketing Christian films in the post-PureFlix world. Despite the ongoing secular stigma toward “faith-based” films like God’s NOT Dead and Fireproof, Angel Studios has distributed multiple successes through cleverly timed marketing pushes, political activism, and pay-it-forward programs.
Review - The Dead Don't Hurt - Geeks Under Grace
The Western feels like a genre overdue for a resurgence but for whatever reason this hasn’t occurred. It has mostly been relegated to arthouse films like The Power of the Dog, and Killers of the Flower Moon, while respectable genre films like Walter Hill’s recent Dead for a Dollar are barely known. Yellowstone and Deadwood have audiences, but can’t seem to escape the small screen.
Review – Sight (2023) - Geeks Under Grace
Angel Studios continues to be one of the most interesting and successful Christian film studios around. The Chosen remains one of the most popular TV shows among American Evangelicals and Catholics. The Sound of Freedom is one of the most successful (and controversial) Christian films of all time at the box office.
Review – Hit Man - Geeks Under Grace
A new Richard Linklater film is always something to celebrate. The acclaimed director of Dazed and Confused, School of Rock, Bad News Bears, the Before Trilogy, Me and Orson Welles, Boyhood, Everybody Wants Some, and Apollo 10 1/2 manages to create something new and introspective every few years. And while the quality is inconsistent, you generally know what you’re getting—laid-back films about average people in suburban Texas.
Review - Shōgun (2024 Miniseries)
I was invited this past February to a television premiere for a new show coming out that I had never heard of. My small Anglican parish was home to some world travelers and educated deacons who were excited about an upcoming adaptation of a popular book I hadn’t heard of, and they wanted to celebrate its premiere. Upon arriving, I was met with the largest spread of expensive sushi and Japanese liquors I’d ever seen, and our host introduced the show while wearing authentic Japanese regalia.
Review – Dune: Part Two - Geeks Under Grace
The history of Dune, since it was first published in 1965, has been a saga involving a long series of sequels and adaptation attempts. Series creator Frank Herbert would write five sequels to his book, of varying quality and generally mixed reception. His son Brian Herbert would write nineteen poorly received spin-off books and sequels based loosely on his father’s notes. Famously, four attempts would be made to adapt the first book into a movie.
Review – American Fiction - Geeks Under Grace
There has been a movement in recent Black cinema to explore the complicated intersection between the Black experience and the intentions of White Liberals, who fancy themselves the greatest cheerleaders of civil rights and justice. The most notable of these films was Jordan Peele’s Get Out, which explored the tense realities of how performative progressivism hides dark motivations; including the desire to consume Black bodies and experiences while marginalizing actual Black people.
Review – The Shift (2023) - Geeks Under Grace
The rise and success of Angel Studios has been nothing short of miraculous. The Chosen’s premiere in 2017 and subsequent rise to mainstream success—being renewed for at least three additional seasons, being regularly shown in theaters to large audiences, and getting syndicated to the CW Network—marks one of the largest entertainment successes for Christian storytelling in the past half-decade.
Review – The Holdovers - Geeks Under Grace
The holiday season is here and with it comes a cavalcade of prestige dramas and holiday films, although they are rarely the same movie.
Review – Anatomy of a Fall - Geeks Under Grace
The fall movie season is already starting to pick up with limited-release movies, prestige dramas, and foreign films beginning to make their appearances in theaters and on streaming. Among the more talked about films of late—which have included The Holdovers, Maestro, May December, Poor Things, and American Fiction—is a French crime thriller that has piqued the interest of the few cinephiles who have had the opportunity to see it yet. Violence/Scary Images: A bloody dead body is discovered.
Review – Master Detective Archives: Rain Code - Geeks Under Grace
What happens when you mix a dreary world of rain, a cyberpunk military corporation, an amnesiac detective, a pink death god, and a psychedelic pyramid? Master Detective Archives: Rain Code, of course. While not officially part of the fan-favorite Danganronpa series, Rain Code‘s minigames and art style fit right in with its predecessor, even as the creators expand its gameplay to include more adventure-style quests than the visual novels of old.
Classic Review — The Horse and His Boy (1954) - Geeks Under Grace
I recently had the opportunity to visit The Museum of the Bible in Washington DC on a business trip and bought a ticket to The Logos Theater’s production of The Horse And His Boy, a Lion King-esque stage play of the beloved fifth book in the Narnia series that was never adapted to film. The production was absolutely inspiring and led me to go back to the book I had largely never gotten to read.
Review - Oppenheimer
The life of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a curious but fascinating muse for the next project of director Christopher Nolan. Given his prior success in Inception and The Dark Knight Trilogy, he continues to enjoy one of the most impressive blank checks in Hollywood history, with a nearly endless series of opportunities to tell whatever story he wants, including Interstellar, Dunkirk, Tenet, and now Oppenheimer.
A Brief Introduction To The Church Fathers
I have been thinking about the church fathers a lot lately. As an Anglican, my tradition sits at the intersection of the historic Christian traditions — a via media or “middle way” between the Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant traditions. We affirm Sola Scriptura and Sola Fida, but we also value the historic views of the patristics. These two instincts need not be in direct confrontation.
Review – Judge Dredd: The Game of Crime-Fighting in Mega-City One - Geeks Under Grace
Judge Dredd: The Game of Crime-Fighting in Mega-City One is a remake of the 1982 Games Workshop classic Judge Dredd. Set in 2000 AD’s comic-book dystopia of the future, players take on the roles of Judges working to rid the streets of crime. Grab your Lawgiver and let’s check out this blast from the past! Review The joke was on me.
Review – Master Gardener - Geeks Under Grace
I must admit I was a little off-put by the most recent movie in Paul Schrader’s new trilogy of films. The great one-time screenwriter and Martin Scorsese collaborator has really reinvented himself in recent years by going back to the well of his original inspiration for films like Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. First Reformed is a modern masterpiece (depending on how you interpret it), but his most recent film The Card Counter lost me for its raw, unrefined approach to its filmmaking.
Review - Andor: Season 1
Happy May the Fourth! Stars Wars, as ever, remains complicated, controversial, and disagreeable. After eight years of Disney Star Wars, this is not new. The recent dustup over the creative failures in The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and Obi-Wan Kenobi have only stood to continuously sour fans of Star Wars who felt put off by the sequel trilogy, to the point where it can feel somewhat hard to publicly celebrate even the original Star Wars films anymore.
Review - The Super Mario Bros. Movie
The idea of a Super Mario Bros. movie has long been the rumored talk of Hollywood since the strange live-action Mario Brothers movie was released in 1993. Nintendo was briefly rumored to be developing an animated movie in 2014 alongside Amy Pascal and Avi Arad at Sony Pictures, but that project didn’t come to fruition. Then in 2018, production of an animated adaptation began in earnest at Universal Pictures, coinciding with the plans to open a Super Mario Bros.
Review - Man in White: A Novel (1986)
I was considering making this book my next Classic Review, but upon examination that would be an oxymoron. Johnny Cash’s novel Man in White is not a classic. It is all but totally forgotten by anyone but the most devoted fans of 20th-century gospel music. I only discovered it recently when I visited the Johnny Cash Museum in Nashville, TN, where an original copy of the book was sitting next to copies of the great country music legend’s autobiographies Man in Black and Cash.
Review - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is the 30th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as well as the 7th and final film for Phase 4, which started with Black Widow last year. This phase has certainly been odd for MCU fans.
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Classic Review – The Hobbit (1937) - Geeks Under Grace
The Hobbit will be turning 85 years old on September 21st! In the last two years, I’ve worked on Classic Reviews as a quasi-monthly series, and I’ve realized there are three texts that scare me too much to approach them: Dante’s Divine Comedy, Shakespeare’s Collected Works, and Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Certainly, there are other books that intimidate me. I struggle at times with the works of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky for instance, but I do not fear them.
Review – Thor: Love and Thunder - Geeks Under Grace
Thor is back! And so is director Taika Waititi to direct his second film in the franchise with the fourth Thorfilm! Waititi is one of our best living directors and he has spent the last seven years defining himself and his career as one of our most in-demand and creative filmmakers. So far, he’s directed What We Do in the Shadows, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Thor: Ragnarok, Jojo Rabbit, and the season 1 finale of The Mandalorian, as well as a handful of episodes of Flight of the Conchords.
Retro Review – Gettysburg (1993) - Geeks Under Grace
This weekend celebrates America’s Independence Day, which marks 246 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence on Monday. With that, I wanted to celebrate the yearly tradition of celebrating the history of our nation (usually by blowing up a small part of it) with a double feature. Last year I discussed the somewhat forgotten musical 1776.
Review – Mad God - Geeks Under Grace
Phil Tippett is an American stop motion animator and an award-winning visual effects supervisor with an impressive 45-year career in Hollywood. His behind-the-scenes credits cover everything from the original Star Wars trilogy, to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Howard the Duck, Robocop, Willow, Jurassic Park, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Dragonheart, Starship Troopers, Evolution, The Spiderwick Chronicles, and all five Twilight films.
Review – Everything Everywhere All At Once - Geeks Under Grace
Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, colloquially known as “Daniels”, have earned themselves a unique position in modern filmmaking. They first came to prominence directing the music video for Turn Down For What, before working with A24 on their first film, Swiss Army Man (2016). Scheinert then went off on his own to direct the incredible dark comedy The Death of Dick Long (2019). Now they’re finally back together for their sophomore film together, Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022).
Classic Review – The Odyssey (675 BC) - Geeks Under Grace
We talked about The Illiad of Homer earlier this year as the monthly Classics Series was just beginning. My essay on that massive poem served as the launching point for what I wanted to do with this series: long-form analytical analysis borrowing from whatever academic material I could readily get my hands on. Four months later, I’m excited to finally be talking about the book’s nominal sequel, The Odyssey.
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