Pop Theology
New Pop Theology contributor Tony Mills reviews Thor, the latest Marvel single-character blockbuster leading up to next year’s hero-studded team up movie, The Avengers. Check it out after the jump…if you don’t mind spoilers. (more…) Read more
New Pop Theology contributor Tony Mills reviews Thor, the latest Marvel single-character blockbuster leading up to next year’s hero-studded team up movie, The Avengers. Check it out after the jump…if you don’t mind spoilers. (more…) Read more
Conversations about violence, justice, revenge, and healing have no doubt been taking place across social media, in workplaces, homes, and classrooms around the world over the past 48 hours. A recent under-the-radar indie film, Shotgun Stories, reminds us that violence, rather than ending violence, simply begets more of it. (more…) Read more
Director Kevin Smith once said (in the documentary This Film is Not Yet Rated) that if he were in charge of the movie ratings system, he’d automatically give an R rating to any film that included violence against women. If this is his primary criteria, then Smith would most likely have rated the French horror film, Martyrs, either X or NC-17. Martyrs is an absurd “horror” film, that is nothing more than torture porn attempting to masquerade as a serious... Read more
New Pop Theology contributor Tony Mills reviews the recent Simon Pegg/Nick Frost comedy, Paul. Check it out after the jump. (more…) Read more
It’s our pleasure to welcome new contributor Tony Mills to the Pop Theology team. Tony is a PhD graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary and, well, I’ll just let him tell you more about himself in the questionnaire after the jump. Welcome Tony! I know everyone’s going to enjoy your contributions. (more…) Read more
In his latest article, Richard Lindsay engages in something of a review/conversation of the new film Of Gods and Men with Mike Campos, a fellow, recent PhD grad at the Graduate Theological Union. (more…) Read more
Move over Bill Compton. Step aside Edward Cullen. There’s a new sheriff…er, vampire…in town, and he’s not a conscience-addled downer either. Skinner Sweet, the preeminent bloodsucker in the American Vampire series is as vicious a vampire as you’re likely to find. The product of Scott Snyder’s imagination and fueled by the twisted vision of Stephen King, this is a comic book series that restores the bite to the vampire genre that has, while not necessarily de-fanged, been dulled as of... Read more
The dark side is alive and well in popular culture and has been for millenia. Just as fascinating as the dark side itself is our fascination with it. In The Lure of the Dark Side: Satan & Western Demonology in Popular Culture, Christopher Partridge and Eric Christianson collect a series of essays, many of which were originally presented at a conference in North Wales in 2006, that discuss both “dark” media and our “addiction” to them. (more…) Read more
Pop Theology contributor Richard Lindsay reviews The Adjustment Bureau after the jump. (more…) Read more
With a dissertation dominating my time for the last year, comics and graphic novels got put on the back burner. With that beast behind me, I’m slowly returning to a realm of pop culture that I have missed. In an effort to get back into the habit of reading and critically engaging with comics and graphic novels, I recently read Graven Images: Religion in Comics and Graphic Novels, a collection of essays edited by David Lewis and Christine Hoff Kraemer.... Read more
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