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  • Metal Monday: August Burns Red | Home Alone Theme

    Once again, August Burns Red has a new Christmas song. This came out a few weeks ago, but I just stumbled across it. That works out because over at Christ and Pop Culture, they are doing a series this week Stations of Home Alone. Rock out here and then head over to read Wade Bearden’s…

  • Movie Notes: Mockingjay Part II (or The Hunger Games Part IV)

    As a new Thanksgiving (more or less) tradition, Ali and I went to see the most recent and last installment of The Hunger Games. We were both thankful we had a good meal beforehand and that we don’t live in Panem. I haven’t read the books but Ali said Mockingjay Part 1 was the best…

  • The Hidden Meanings in The Matrix (@EarthlingCinema)

    I actually ended up watching this movie in high school because I had a Bible teacher that pointed out some of this imagery. I remember being slightly disturbed and wondering if it was possible that the Matrix was real. But then I remembered if Christianity is true then it’s not possible. The anxiety soon dissipated.

  • The LEGO Movie’s Hidden Meanings (via @EarthlingCinema)

    If you’re not familiar with the background of these videos, it is an alien explaining human culture to other aliens, via our movies. I’m sure you picked up that the LEGO movie had some philosophical undertones, but now you can know it for sure.

  • What’s Wrong With Art and Music: A Student’s Guide

    More often than not, I give books a 4 out 5 star rating after I read them. This is mainly because I’m fairly selective in what I choose to read and have a good idea what I might like. Occasionally, one of these books turns out to be a dud, and then I end up…

  • Interstellar Around the Web

    As is our tradition, we’re finishing out the year with a Christopher Nolan film. Part of what I like to do in Bible class is teach cultural criticism, and appreciation of good storytelling and cinematography. So, two years ago it was Inception. Last year it was The Prestige. And now Interstellar. I was perhaps over-hyped…

  • Star Wars Analyzed By Aliens (Earthling Cinema)

    Given the earlier celebration of May the 4th this week, I thought we’d get back to film Friday with these videos from Earthling Cinema. In case you’re curious, the premise of these videos is that human culture no longer exists and an alien is explaining it to other aliens using the cultural artifacts of our movies.

  • The Stories We Tell: Chapters 3, 4, & 10

    Last time, we looked the core part of Mike Cosper’s The Stories We Tell. Now, we’ll go back and hit chapters 3-4 before finishing up with the last chapter. From what I can tell, you can still get the eBook of this for free as a Christ and Pop Culture member. That probably won’t be…

  • Film Friday: Earthling Cinema | Fight Club

    I know we usually do philosophy on Fridays, but the Wisecrack channel that brought us 8-Bit Philosophy have a new show. Earthling Cinema is, in brief, film criticism done by an alien after humanity has been wiped out in a galactic civil war. The first film under consideration is Fight Club. If you haven’t seen the movie,…

  • The Stories We Tell: Chapters 5-9

    Beginning in chapter 3, Cosper surveys many of the types of stories we tell in our cinematic arts. We have stories of paradise lost and playing God (chapter 3), of the search for love (chapter 4), of original sin and falls from grace (chapter 5), of the frustration and futility in a post-fall world (chapter…