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Objectified is about your daily life, full of contact with mass-produced objects.

“What’s the difference between the Imaginarium and Flickerings,” people have asked me. My coy answer: at Flickerings, we screen films. At Imaginarium, we watch MOVIES.

Critics were divided over David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Some were enchanted by its  Forrest Gump-ish charm, by the performances, or by the awe-inspiring special effects.  Others found the character of Button too “inert,” a character who only observes, but isn’t interesting. Seitz is among the film’s most passionate defenders. At The […]

Over the past few years I have seen a number of documentaries and essay films inspired by different ecclesial byways in the US. It has been interesting to track this trend alongside all the recent hub-bub about a growing Christian Film Industry – as this increasing number of documentaries is either a creative response to […]

n Hans Urs von Balthasar’s THEO-LOGIC, Christian truth is also the world’s truth, and it is the Spirit-led task of the followers of Christ to improvise on the melody of the Logos in order to draw out the truth of the world.

I’ll freely admit that the first time I watched Ping Pong, I was pretty disappointed and underwhelmed. But in hindsight, I had gone in with completely wrong expectations. Based on the trailers I’d seen and some of the more effusive praise I’d read on the Web, I went in expecting an over-the-top, CGI-fueled live-action cartoon […]

Atom Egoyan’s new film boasts interesting questions and high-concept storytelling, but it never quite gels.

Distinguished theologian William T. Cavanaugh looks at the contemporary debate around torture (if the U.S. does torture and what torture constitutes) and gives a contrasting narrative to the one typically used to contextualize torture–the Eucharist.