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1 month ago | 
geeksundergrace.com | Derek Thompson |Tyler Hummel |Spencer Patterson |Stephen Hall
As I recently wrote in a piece for The Federalist, the faith-based film market is in a curious position. The age of films like God’s Not Dead, Fireproof, and Heaven Is for Real has slowly mutated into a more superficially dark genre, headlined by more controversially partisan films like The Sound of Freedom, Nefarious, and Lady Ballers. However, old-fashioned faith-based films, like those from the early 2010s, are still a thing.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Derek Thompson |Tyler Hummel |Stephen Hall |Juliana Purnell
The Virgin Mary is one of the most important figures in Christianity. She is one of the most venerable and respected figures of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox faiths and a figure of high reverence among Protestants and Evangelicals. She holds the Christological title of the “Mother of God,” a refutation against the early church’s Nestorian heresy.
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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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Nov 24, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Juliana Purnell |Stephen Hall |Tyler Hummel |Jamie Rice
The politics of Angel Studios are challenging to track, even though they’ve come to lead many of the discussions surrounding their film output in the past two years. They’ve partnered with conservative outlet The Daily Wire to release Sound of Hope and released the infamous Sound of Freedom to a ravenously conservative audience. At the same time though, the content of their releases and their creative partners skew progressive and diverse. Sight and Sound of Hope star actors of color.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Tyler Hummel |Stephen Hall |Noel Dávila |Andrew Borck
Dallas Jenkins has built an empire in the Christian filmmaking world in just a few short years. From his early years in ministry at Harvest Bible Chapel, to faith-based films like Hometown Legend and The Resurrection of Gavin Stone, to launching the largest faith-based television project in history, he’s accomplished much in the past decade. Considering his father Jerry Jenkins was already world-renowned as the author of the Left Behind books, he’s done a remarkable job making a name for himself.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Tyler Hummel |Stephen Hall |Noel Dávila |Andrew Borck
This year brought one of the strangest surprises of recent memory, the most critically acclaimed Transformersfilm in the history of the venerable franchise. But that success was undermined by it becoming one of the year’s biggest box office failures.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Tyler Hummel |Stephen Hall |Noel Dávila |Andrew Borck
I’ve recently been mulling over the idea of film as a liturgy. I don’t mean this in the literal sense, suggesting film is sacred in and of itself. It just struck me that films have a way of becoming annual traditions. Watching It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown every Halloween, A Christmas Story on Christmas Eve, Groundhog Day on Groundhog Day, or 1776 on Independence Day are things I choose to do every year because they bring structure.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Nathan Kiehn |Stephen Hall |Derek Thompson |Spencer Patterson
The remarkable director of Blue Ruin and Green Room has reemerged from a six-year break/delay in filmmaking (not counting a few episodes of True Detective Season 3) with a third movie of what might be considered the best trio of indie action films in the past decade. Following his 2007 indie-horror-comedy Murder Party, this director has successfully become a fan favorite among cinephiles.
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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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Sep 11, 2024 | 
geeksundergrace.com | Stephen Hall |Derek Thompson |Spencer Patterson |Lexi Tucker
The Mana franchise has been around in name since Secret of Mana hit the scene on Super Nintendo over thirty years ago. Mana has had some beloved entries, but no new mainline entries have graced fans’ hands since the PlayStation 2. Now the series is back with Visions of Mana, a new tale full of bright colors and familiar design sensibilities that will have long-time fans cracking a smile. Could it win new fans to the franchise?
