Inception: A Grief Observed

Inception DiCaprio Cotillard

I have written previously about Christopher Nolan’s brilliant film, Inception, both in the Journal of Religion and Film and a previous blog post. But I have yet to address yet another key connection between Nolan’s film and the writing of C. S. Lewis (the last several months have been unbelievably busy, leaving a terrific backlog [...] Read more »

My JRF Review of the Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Will Poulter Eustace Scrubb Voyage of the Dawn Treader Narnia

My review of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader movie has been posted at the Journal of Religion and Film (accessible through this link). My review references the original script, part of which was leaked to the public in 2008, causing much outrage among Lewis enthusiasts. Details about that script and [...] Read more »

“Inception” Review Now Posted

Christopher Nolan Leonardo DiCaprio Inception

My Journal of Religion and Film review of Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” is now available. There was a lot I had to leave out due to space constraints, but overall I’m pleased with the outcome, minus the grammatical error the editor managed to introduce into my article. (My version had said, “as C. S. Lewis . [...] Read more »

“The Social Network” and Mark Zuckerberg

Jesse Eisenberg Social Network Mark Zuckerberg

“The Social Network” has been the top movie for a couple weeks now, and I’ve had a couple friends who have commented about how much it opened their eyes about what kind of person Mark Zuckerberg is, only to be surprised by my pointing out that this movie isn’t exactly a documentary concerned with getting [...] Read more »

A Few Thoughts on “Avatar”

I finally got a chance to watch Avatar in 3D the other night—strictly business, of course, since I had assigned it to the Sociology of Religion class for which I am guest-lecturing this evening on the nature and definition of religion, using Avatar as a launching point. It was essentially what I had heard: a [...] Read more »