Pauline Media Studies

Film & TV Reviews

Examined through diverse lenses – human, artistic, religious

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...

Unbroken Movie Review

As I watched the story of Louis “Louie” Zamperini (Jack O’Connell) unfold on the screen in front of me...

Rosewater Movie Review

One might think that the big screen directorial debut of The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart would be a comedy....