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Dec 6, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Stephen Hall |Juliana Purnell |Tyler Hummel |or Meh
This is the sixth in a multi-part article series running from November 1 to December 27. It discusses the themes and meaning of Christmas movies, digs into specific tropes, and unpacks the true nature of Christmas. The first, second, third, fourth, and fifth essays can be found here. December 6th has been annually celebrated since the Middle Ages as the Feast of St. Nicholas of Myra in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglican traditions.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | or Meh |Juliana Purnell |Tyler Hummel |Derek Thompson
The recent trailer for Dear Santa drew a brief negative reaction this past month before completely disappearing. Curiously, the film quietly dropped on Paramount+ over Thanksgiving week without fanfare and a mere handful of reviews, leaving no real splash in the busy holiday season. It’s not hard to see why. Despite being written and directed by Dumb And Dumber, Fever Pitch, and There’s Something About Mary veterans Peter and Bobby Farrelly, it didn’t warrant much response.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | or Meh |Juliana Purnell |Tyler Hummel |Derek Thompson
This holiday season, we asked our 3 main tabletop writers to recommend 3 games so we can give you, dear readers, 12 solid recommendations. The stipulations are simple: each writer will recommend a lightweight game, a midweight game, and a personal favorite, which could be lightweight, midweight, or heavyweight. Moreover, each of these games should be readily available and released in the past 2 years.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Andrew Borck |or Meh |Juliana Purnell |Tyler Hummel
2024’s awards season has already begun! With the 2025 Academy Awards just a few months away on March 2nd, Oscar buzz has already begun accumulating around upcoming films like Anora, Gladiator II, The Brutalist, Wicked, Challengers, and Dune II. Surprisingly, one of the year’s potential major contenders just dropped in late October.
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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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Jul 29, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Andrew Borck |or Meh |Juliana Purnell |Spencer Patterson
The Luigi’s Mansion spin-off series has become a mainstay of Nintendo’s modern output. With 3 main games, 2 remakes, an arcade title, and even vague rumors of a movie adaptation, it’s easy to forget that, before it was the mini-powerhouse it is today, Luigi’s Mansionwas a one-off title meant to kick off Nintendo’s entry into the sixth generation of consoles. And for a time, that looked like where it would stay.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | or Meh |Juliana Purnell |Derek Thompson |Andrew Borck
Angel Studios continues to be the master of marketing Christian films in the post-PureFlix world. Despite the ongoing secular stigma toward “faith-based” films like God’s NOT Dead and Fireproof, Angel Studios has distributed multiple successes through cleverly timed marketing pushes, political activism, and pay-it-forward programs.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Derek Thompson |Tyler Hummel |Spencer Patterson |or Meh
The Western feels like a genre overdue for a resurgence but for whatever reason this hasn’t occurred. It has mostly been relegated to arthouse films like The Power of the Dog, and Killers of the Flower Moon, while respectable genre films like Walter Hill’s recent Dead for a Dollar are barely known. Yellowstone and Deadwood have audiences, but can’t seem to escape the small screen.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Spencer Patterson |Tyler Hummel |Derek Thompson |or Meh
Angel Studios continues to be one of the most interesting and successful Christian film studios around. The Chosen remains one of the most popular TV shows among American Evangelicals and Catholics. The Sound of Freedom is one of the most successful (and controversial) Christian films of all time at the box office.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Derek Thompson |Tyler Hummel |or Meh |Juliana Purnell
A new Richard Linklater film is always something to celebrate. The acclaimed director of Dazed and Confused, School of Rock, Bad News Bears, the Before Trilogy, Me and Orson Welles, Boyhood, Everybody Wants Some, and Apollo 10 1/2 manages to create something new and introspective every few years. And while the quality is inconsistent, you generally know what you’re getting—laid-back films about average people in suburban Texas.
