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Nov 29, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Spencer Patterson |Joe Morgan |Andrew Borck |Lexi Tucker
This is the fifth in a multi-part article series running from November 1 to Epiphany. It discusses the themes and meaning of Christmas movies, digs into specific tropes, and unpacks the true nature of Christmas. The first, second, third, and fourth essays can be found here. If someone asked you what the most financially successful Christmas movie of all time was, what movie would you guess? It is a difficult question to answer due to the way Hollywood accounting works.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Jamie Rice |Spencer Patterson |Tyler Hummel |Joe Morgan
This is the fourth in a multi-part article series running from November 1 to Epiphany. It discusses the themes and meaning of Christmas movies, digs into specific tropes, and unpacks the true nature of Christmas. The first, second, and third essays can be found here. When examining the history of Christmas movies, one begins to recognize how Christmas operates as a subgenre. It ebbs and flows with the film industry trends, following popular genres.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Joe Morgan |Johnathan Floyd |Spencer Patterson |Tyler Hummel
After a remarkable five-decade career, Martin Scorsese remains one of the most essential living filmmakers. Even at 82, the acclaimed director of Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, and Raging Bull still creates remarkable masterpieces like Silence, The Irishman, and Killer of the Flower Moon. With his upcoming Jesus biopic starring Andrew Garfield on the horizon, he has finally achieved his dream of releasing a TV series about Catholic saints.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Andrew Borck |Tyler Hummel |Joe Morgan |Ricky Beckett
By Ricky Beckett, GUG ContributorThis article was edited to Geeks Under Grace standards, and the personal opinions of this author are not necessarily that of Geeks Under Grace. In recent years, video games have evolved into more than just a form of entertainment. For many, they have become a refuge from the struggles of everyday life.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Joe Morgan |Stephen Hall |Andrew Borck |or Meh
Since I’ve been getting negative comments of late for reviewing allegedly grotesque, harmful content, it doesn’t seem like adding more wood to that fire will hurt me much. I respect my fellow Christians who have strict viewership requirements on what they like to expose themselves to and abide by lesser restrictions myself. Everyone must know what their limits are, and shows like South Park do not personally push me away from my convictions.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Stephen Hall |Logan Smiley |Derek Thompson |Joe Morgan
When I joined the Anglican tradition, it was the culmination of a years-long religious journey, wherein I was grappling with years of quiet dissatisfaction with my evangelical upbringing. I felt out of touch with my family’s megachurch roots and wanted a traditional church with hymnbooks and more comprehensive theology. After years of visiting churches, I found what I was looking for in the Anglican and Episcopal church. What most drew me most into those traditions was the Book of Common Prayer.
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Feb 4, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Derek Thompson |Johnathan Floyd |Tyler Hummel |Joe Morgan
It is a good time to be a Godzilla fan right now! Godzilla Minus One and its rerelease Godzilla Minus One Minus Color have become one of the biggest blockbusters of the past two months. A new movie, Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, is set to release soon, and AppleTV+’s spin-off television show has proved to be a surprising highlight of recent television.
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Feb 3, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Johnathan Floyd |Tyler Hummel |Joe Morgan |Derek Thompson
When Ted was first released in 2012, it marked the beginning of a new stage in the career of animator and comedian Seth MacFarlane. The creator of Family Guy had already made success launching new series like American Dad, but the clout he’d made as one of the most successor showrunners in Hollywood gave him the freedom to launch almost any project he wanted, including a Star Trek parody called The Orville.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Stephen Hall |Joe Morgan |Tyler Hummel |Juliana Purnell
There is a curious tendency among film nerds to prefer darker material to more light-hearted material. This instinct is not new, as superficial maturity is a cornerstone of any adolescent’s view of the world—embracing dark characters and ideas rather than exploring the mature fully formed ideas that come with adulthood.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Derek Thompson |Joe Morgan |Jamie Rice |Tyler Hummel
The rise of Taika Waititi has been one of the most interesting developments of the past decade. His low-budget comedy What We Do In The Shadows—largely emerging from the creative team of HBO’s defunct comedy series Flight of the Conchords—was a tiny cult hit of a film that rapidly escalated into prominence, resulting in the director being handed the keys to direct Disney projects like Thor: Ragnarok and Thor: Love and Thunder, with a Star Wars film on the way.
