Pauline Media Studies

Film & TV Reviews

Examined through diverse lenses – human, artistic, religious

House of David Season Two – Whom Do You Serve?

With the success of The Chosen, more bible-based projects are gracing our streaming platforms. YouTube just released a comedy...

The Promised Land – Celebrating the Ability to Laugh at Ourselves

I remember a short scene from the movie Amistad. In 1839, the African men imprisoned in Massachusetts while awaiting...

Stolen Girl – The Cost of Sacrificial Love

Few people can witness stories of children suffering without feeling their heartstrings pulled. I’m thinking of the upcoming film...

Broken Mary – Testimony of Hope from “Mary’s Roadie”

In this time when social media and artificial intelligence challenge our true connections and relationships with each other as...

K-Pop Demon Hunters – Saving Souls with Song

At their best, fictional stories can galvanize real-world virtue through the universal appeal of truth, goodness, and beauty. Sometimes...

Looking Through Water – Intergenerational Healing

I don’t think I’ve met a family yet that doesn’t have some need of healing, including my own. What...

Triumph of the Heart – The Cost of Love

Triumph of the Heart, written and directed by Anthony D’Ambrosio, is nothing less than a masterpiece of filmmaking. This...

Bau: Artist at War – Love Conquers All

Reflecting on history affords us the chance to be reminded again and again that amid the greatest evils perpetrated...

Light of the World – Find Darkness, Insert Light

There have been numerous movies made about the life of Jesus, both live-action and animated. Each one offers a...

Guardians of the Rainforest

Immerse yourself in the colorful sights, vibrant sounds and local languages spoken in three tropical rainforests. Produced by veteran...

Sketch – Creatively Expressing Feelings

I was never much of a draw-er when I was a kid, but I did experience grief. I was...

How to Train Your Dragon – Courage Under Pressure

The movie-going audience has been inundated with live-action remakes lately, mostly from Disney. The unscientific consensus, at least for...