Five Poems to Read on Veteran's Day
In Flanders Fields by John Mccrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the...
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Nov 20, 2017
Trailer: The Wingfeather Saga
This animated short has been a long time in the making. Most people wouldn’t believe the amount of work that goes into something like...
Oct 30, 2017
Loving Vincent – Reflections from a Reluctant Viewer
I am not a van Gogh scholar in the academic sense. But following my middle school art teacher’s advice to pick an artist to study for the...
Oct 17, 2017
Cruciform Imagination, Part 3: Bad Neighborhoods
“My mind is like a bad neighborhood. I try not to go there alone.” – Anne Lamott This analogy packs a punch because it portrays the...
Sep 4, 2017
Encounters with Wonder
I’m six years old and I’m walking into a theater. The cavernous space is so crowded that nearly every seat is taken and we have to sit...
Sep 1, 2017
Rabbit Reads: Movies Are Prayers
If you’ve listened to the last few episodes The Rabbit Room podcast, you know how much we love watching and talking about good movies....
Aug 29, 2017
Cruciform Imagination, Part 2: True & False Wealth in Spirited Away
Admittedly, Miyazaki’s Spirited Away is a very odd film, especially for us Westerners. I always feel a bit disoriented as I begin to...
Jun 2, 2017
Looking Closer: Beauty, Truth, and Evil in the Movies
On June 17th, join Jeffrey Overstreet, Christianity Today’s senior film critic, as he shares how movies inspired and rejuvenated his...
May 26, 2017
Movie vs. Show
In this year’s Best Films of 2016 Rabbit Room podcast, one of the chosen films was… a TV show. Cheating? Sure. But it makes sense to...
Apr 7, 2017
Death of a Fictionsmith
When I was a kid, I was repeatedly told I could do anything I set my mind to accomplish. This led me to try things bigger than I would...
Mar 27, 2017
Moved By Lion
My wife Gina and I don’t watch television, so we rarely hear about any film that is not your typical blockbuster. So, when we decided on...
Mar 16, 2017
Poll: Beauty and the Beast
Disney’s live-action remake of one of the most perfect animated films of all time will open tomorrow and I can’t decide if I like that or...
Mar 8, 2017
Diving Into Lent (through books, film, music, & a podcast)
While I have long been an appreciator of the church calendar, Lent is the season that I have taken the longest to appreciate, mostly due...
Feb 24, 2017
The Mad Truth of La La Land
Let me say right off the bat that this post is full of spoilers. It oozes spoilers. Spoilaphobic reader, beware. I want to talk about La...
Feb 8, 2017
Review: The Founder
The Founder is a good film. From the story of Ray Kroc’s invention of fast food, to the acting (Michael Keaton, Laura Dern, and Nick...
Jan 31, 2017
What I Didn’t Hear in Silence
Silence is a masterpiece that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. I don’t know when I’ve ever seen an adaptation that so...
Jan 25, 2017
Friday Night at the Movies: Silence
Books like Silence only come around once or twice in a generation. I read it several years ago (my review here), and I haven’t stopped...
Jan 2, 2017
Our Favorite Movies and TV Shows of 2016
While admittedly none of us have seen Silence yet, here’s a list of some of our favorite movies and TV shows of the past year. Movies and...
Dec 29, 2016
The Syntax and Semantics of Serenity
Serenity (the capstone of Joss Whedon’s Firefly series) is one of my all time favorite movies. It’s part epic western, part epic sci-fi,...
Dec 28, 2016
Gods & Rabbits: How Watership Down Leads Believers and Writers to Freedom
Richard Adams, author of Watership Down, creator of Fiver and Bigwig and Hazel and an entire rabbit vocabulary, died yesterday at the...
Dec 13, 2016
Podcast Episode 54: Martyrs, Not Saints
Shusako Endo’s Silence is a powerful work of fiction, and is now a feature film by Martin Scorsese. Jonathan Rogers sits down with Thomas...
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