Pauline Media Studies

Film & TV Reviews

Examined through diverse lenses – human, artistic, religious

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

This second installment in The Maze Runner series begins right where the first film ends off. Having escaped the...

A Walk in the Woods Movie Review

I love nature. My maternal grandpa was a Boy Scout leader and Mom and her siblings grew up hiking...

Z for Zachariah

Beginning, middle, and end—the three essential parts of a story. When a story, or in this case a movie,...

Learning To Drive Movie Review

Wendy (Patricia Clarkson) loves words. She always has. Unfortunately, her job as a New York literary critic took precedence...

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation Movie Review

I’m quite the sap for action films. I like the fast paced, heart-stopping sequences. In general, my life as...

Ant-Man Movie Review

If you’re a big fan of the ever-expanding Marvel cinematic universe, you’ll love the addition of Ant-Man to the...

Minions

The funny, pill-shaped, nonsense-jabbering characters from the Despicable Me movies get their own screen time in Minions. Their purpose:...

Max Movie Review

I grew up reading two or three Hardy Boys novels each week during the summer much to my Mom’s...

Inside Out Movie Review

I’m already a fan of Pixar Animation Studios (I used their films as the basis for my Master’s thesis)...

Jurassic World Movie Review

I first saw the 1993 Jurassic Park movie on a really small TV screen, probably about 15 inches. There...

Book of Life Movie Review

A fun thing to do is to have a weekly “family movie night” to catch up on some of...

Cinderella Movie Review-The Influence of Good Parenting

The fairy tale of Cinderella has been told many times on film, the most famous being Disney’s 1950 animated...