Movie review: ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’
Peter Jackson’s movie concludes his film adaptation of J.R.R Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit; or at least he begins its conclusion, with an extended edition expected later.
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1. The Movie, “The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies” – Pr. Ted Giese, 1/6/15
Pastor Ted Giese of Mount Olive Lutheran-Regina, Saskatchewan “The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies” by Ted Giese
Exodus: Wrestling with God and Scripture
by Ted Giese
Darren Aronofsky’s Noah (2013) was an opinionated film chock full of dark cryptic extra-biblical mysticism and environmentalist concerns often feeling like propaganda for something. Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings, on the whole, is a much different film. His “sword and sandal” epic is surprisingly restrained, subdued, and filled with a genuine wrestling with the biblical story of Moses. It is Scott’s as a recovering atheist who is agnostically struggling with materialism and the possibility of the Divine.
At first blush the film seems to rest on the razor’s …
Movie review: ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’
Ridley Scott’s new film can’t be recommended as a “devotional,” but may serve as fertile ground for conversing with others about God.
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1. The Movie, “Exodus: Gods and Kings” – Pr. Ted Giese, 12/18/14
Pastor Ted Giese of Mount Olive Lutheran-Regina, Saskatchewan “Exodus: Gods and Kings” by Ted Giese
2. Expectations for the Movie, “Exodus: Gods and Kings” – Pr. Ted Giese, 12/11/14
Pastor Ted Giese of Mount Olive Lutheran-Regina, Saskatchewan
Movie review: ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1′
Fans of the “Hunger Games” franchise likely will enjoy the film, and it will certainly tide them over until Part 2 debuts in November 2015.
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2. The Movie: “Hunger Games, Mocking Jay, Part 1″ – Pr. Ted Giese, 11/27/14
Pastor Ted Giese of Mount Olive Lutheran-Regina, Saskatchewan “Hunger Games: Mocking Jay, Part 1″ by Ted Giese
1. The Movie, “Interstellar” Pr. Ted Giese, 11/12/14
Pastor Ted Giese of Mount Olive Lutheran-Regina, Saskatchewan “Interstellar” by Ted Giese
Movie review: ‘Interstellar’
Christopher Nolan’s new film is more like his film “Inception” than his trilogy of “Batman” movies. It’s both cerebral and emotionally intense.
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Annabelle: Bad Theology All Dolled Up
by Ted Giese
Annabelle is the follow-up to James Wan’s horror film The Conjuring. This time out, Wan is a producer and not the director; Annabelle is directed by Wan’s cinematographer from The Conjuring, John R. Leonetti. The Conjuring introduced viewers to a creepy doll named Annabelle who terrorized a couple of young nursing students in the 1970s.This b-plot (allegedly based on a true story) proved so popular it garnered the production of Annabelle, a film detailing the origins of the possessed doll.
Annabelle is set in 1970. The film’s central young …
Movie review: ‘Fury’
At its core, “Fury” is not a sweeping epic but rather an intimate portrait of men in war. And those men are never far from their Christian faith.
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IE: The Movie, “Fury” – Pr. Ted Giese, 10/23/14
Pastor Ted Giese of Mount Olive Lutheran-Regina, Saskatchewan “Fury” by Ted Giese
The Maze Runner: A memorable adventure
by Ted Giese
The Maze Runner is a sci-fi action thriller aimed at young viewers. Set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia, the film (based on the book of the same name) catapults its audience into the thick of the action from its first scene. A boy awakes in an elevator moving up quickly. He doesn’t know where he is, he can’t remember anything from his life before that moment and, at first, he can’t even remember his name. The elevator, called the Box, hits the top of its track and opens into …
IE: The Movie, “Annabelle” – Pr. Ted Giese, 10/9/14
Pastor Ted Giese of Mount Olive Lutheran-Regina, Saskatchewan “Annabelle” by Ted Giese
Movie review: ‘Annabelle’
“Annabelle,” the follow-up to the horror film, “The Conjuring,” falls short of its goal. The truly horrifying elements of the film are bad preaching and bad theology.
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IE: The Movie, “The Maze Runner” – Pr. Ted Giese, 10/3/14
Pastor Ted Giese of Mount Olive Lutheran-Regina, Saskatchewan “The Maze Runner” by Ted Giese
IE: Movie Review: “Boyhood” – Pr. Ted Giese, 9/19/14
Pastor Ted Giese of Mount Olive Lutheran-Regina, Saskatchewan “Boyhoood” by Ted Giese
IE: A 30th Anniversary Review of the Movies “Ghost Busters” and “Amadeus” – Pr. Ted Giese, 9/3/14
Pastor Ted Giese of Mount Olive Lutheran-Regina, Saskatchewan “Ghost Busters” by Ted Giese
Unlikely heroes want to do better?
by Ted Giese
When it comes to MARVEL it looks like movie-goers are “hooked on a feeling” and the studio’s big gamble bringing the cult comic book Guardians of the Galaxy to the silver screen has paid off. With an opening weekend that dwarfed recent offerings MARVEL proves again it is the studio to watch. Add to that the success of its film Captain America: The Winters Soldier this past March and it’s easy to see that MARVEL has won the hearts and minds of its key audience.
Starting with Iron Man …