Richard Lindsay with a few thoughts on The Help's Oscar campaign and the work of its two stars, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, off the screen. … [Read more...]

Like all great films, Jeff Nichols' latest film, Take Shelter, speaks to the times in which we live. It powerfully reveals the destructive hold that irrational fear can exert on an individual and a community and is, as such, a deeply spiritual film. It's also one of the biggest Oscar snubs of this awards season as Michael Shannon's captivating performance was left un-nominated. Nichols himself is slowly emerging as a most important writer/director in American cinema. In the end, Take Shelter is … [Read more...]

In one of his recent film articles for the Baptist Press, Phil Boatwright bemoaned the overwhelming number of curse words in The Grey. He counted something like 200 of them. One wonders how he managed to keep track of all those F-words while adequately paying attention to everything else in the film. He ultimately argued that it is a blasphemous, hopeless mess (I saw the film and strongly disagree). By his criteria, I doubt he enjoyed The Descendants all that much. Like The Grey, I found it to … [Read more...]

Ryan here. In a couple of weeks, I'll be departing on a world tour of sorts (more on that in a later post). While I will still be posting on all things religious and pop cultural, Richard Lindsay, formerly unofficial but now official co-editor of Pop Theology, will take a more direct role in content creation on the site. If you have any thoughts for posts he should write or contributions you'd like to make, you can contact him at www.facebook.com/rlindsay2. For now, I wanted to provide an … [Read more...]