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Tag Archives: science fiction
Snowpiercer: Escapist Train Hurtling Toward Hell (Movie Review)
Legend has it that South Korean director Bong Joon-ho stumbled across Jean-Marc Rouchette’s graphic novel, Le Transperceneige, about a perpetually-moving train that houses the remnants of the world’s population. Divided by class and perceived ‘worth,’ the train signifies the caste system … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Movie Reviews, Reviews, Theology
Tagged apocalypse, Bong Joon-ho, chris evans, District 9, Ed Harris, global warming, Go Ah-sung, ice age, Jean-Marc Rouchette, John Hurt, Le Transperceneige, Namgoong Minsu, octavia spencer, science fiction, The Matrix, Tilda Swinton, Train, Wilford
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Elysium: Good News For All? (Movie Review)
A few years ago, I found myself “discussing” Neill Blomkamp’s first feature film, District 9, with a friend. My friend thought it was an incredibly entertaining and visual film, but nothing more. I was incredulous! How could he not see the … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Reviews, Pop Culture, Theology
Tagged District 9, isaac assimov, Matt Damon, Neill Blomkamp, philip k. dick, science fiction, Sharlto Copley
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Neill Blomkamp’s Message For Christian Filmmakers
With the release of Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium, the story of a dystopian future where the privileged live in a safe space station above Earth while the impoverished struggle in a desolate waste, I went back to the first of Blomkamp’s … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Movie Reviews, Pop Culture, Theology
Tagged apartheid, Beatitudes, christian art, District 9, Elysium, immigration, Jesus, Neill Blomkamp, science fiction, segregation, Sharlto Copley
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Orphan Black: Who Are You? (TV Review)
BBC America’s Orphan Black delivers some shockingly good moments in its first ten-episode season. Starring Tatiana Maslany as streetwise hustler Sarah, and a number of other clones, the show begins with the startling suicide-by-train of one of the clones, Detective … Continue reading
Posted in Pop Culture, Theology, TV
Tagged BBC America, Cloning, identity, philip k. dick, science fiction, tatiana maslany
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