What is the role of religion in a secular society? How do we (should we) reconcile science and religion? These are questions that have haunted intellectuals for centuries. As we see in one of Thomas Jefferson’s most secretive personal projects, such questions have never been easy to resolve. In 1820, he infamously carved copies ofContinue reading “GUG Book Review: Thomas Jefferson’s Bible”
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GUG Book Review: Grendel
Following my recent review of Beowulf, I’ve made the effort recently to start digging into contemporary scholarship on the famous poem and it’s various offshoots and creatively inspired followers. One of them is recent feminist translation of Beowulf which I just reviewed for Geeks Under Grace. The other is a very well regarded deconstructionist takeContinue reading “GUG Book Review: Grendel”
GUG Review: Church People
I’ve long held a fatwa against “Christian” movies on the grounds that they suck. That’s hardly a hot-take. Most people agree that they suck. I have mostly avoided the genre for years. I think the last two I can remember seeing are Heaven is for Real (2014) and Unplanned (2019). I did however try toContinue reading “GUG Review: Church People”
GUG Classic Review: The King of Kings
This past Easter, I watched through a dozen adaptations of the last of Christ to pick out which versions best captured his story and message. My understated favorite of the lot was Cecil B. Demille’s 1927 biopic King of Kings. The film was a beautiful if unorthodox adaptation of the life of Christ. Demille doesContinue reading “GUG Classic Review: The King of Kings”
GUG – Two Interviews from the El Dorado FF
Back in November of 2020, I had the opportunity to attend the El Dorado Film Festival in Southern Arkansas! I drove all the way down there from Chicago in one day and spent the weekend watching dozens of short films and a couple of feature length films that were being presented to the public, often,Continue reading “GUG – Two Interviews from the El Dorado FF”
GUG Review: Godzilla vs. Kong
I seem to be on the higher end of critical appraisals for the newest Godzilla film. I’ve enjoyed the entire Monster-Verse so far and I genuinely enjoy classic monster flicks already. Maybe I’m just predisposed to enjoying DUMB monster movies with empty characters and nonsense stories. Then again, I’ve never reviewed the Transformers series andContinue reading “GUG Review: Godzilla vs. Kong”
GUG Review: The Funeral Home
Following up on my recent series of low-budget horror reviews for GeeksUnderGrace.com, my second film in the series was a small Argentinian horror film called The Funeral Home. I’ve been genuinely curious to see horror films from other cultures becoming a primary feature of modern cinema. Films like Get Out and Blood Quantum have earnedContinue reading “GUG Review: The Funeral Home”
GUG Classic Review: The Maltese Falcon
Turner Classic Movies recently released The Maltese Falcon on the big screen to coincide with the film’s 70th anniversary! Thankfully, I was able to cross the border into Indiana while my local theaters were still closed to catch the film while it was playing! John Huston’s wonderful, cynical and mean spirited mystery thriller remains oneContinue reading “GUG Classic Review: The Maltese Falcon”
GUG Review: A Nightmare Wakes
I started doing a number of horror reviews back in January thanks to Geeks Under Grace receiving a flurry of screener copies from companies like Shudder and other small horror distributors. A Nightmare Wakes was a low-budget biopic about the life of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus. As a classics nerd,Continue reading “GUG Review: A Nightmare Wakes”
GUG Review: Minari
Film is finally starting to catch up! With this year’s awards season finally starting up, many of the big awards nominee films are slowly dropping in theaters! One of my favorites was this small A24 film Minari about a Korean immigrant family trying to make ends meet in a farm in Rural Arkansas! It’s sad,Continue reading “GUG Review: Minari”
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