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About Daniel Melvill Jones

Daniel Melvill Jones (@djmelvill) is spending his early 20s working for a technology company while he anxiously waits for the right time to return to school. (Trusting the Grand Weaver’s plan is hard but fruitful.) In the meantime he is serving his local church, reading an ever growing stack of volumes, and writing about life and creativity at www.danielmelvilljones.com.

Review| Toni Erdmann

Review| Toni Erdmann

March 14, 20170

Toni Erdmann is about the lengths one might go to pursue someone and the ways we mask such a longing…

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Review| Paterson

Review| Paterson

February 28, 20170

It’s Monday and the early morning sun cast an amber glow to the white undershirt of Paterson (Adam Driver) and…

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Review| The Resurrection of Gavin Stone

Review| The Resurrection of Gavin Stone

January 22, 20170

The Christian film industry is a strange sub-genre. I remember the fervent debate in high school amongst my friends over…

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Review| Jackie

Review| Jackie

January 6, 20171

Imagine your husband unexpectedly dying in front of you. Now imagine that his death is as violent as it was…

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Review| Les Innocents

Review| Les Innocents

January 3, 20170

In recent years we’ve been given three foreign films that take as their subject the events in a monastery; “Of…

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Review| Macbeth

Review| Macbeth

January 26, 20160

500 years ago, Shakespeare wrote plays for the population of England and today we are still finding new ways to…

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Reviewing the Classics| City Lights

Reviewing the Classics| City Lights

January 13, 20160

Although I’ve included a few clips from City Lights, I highly recommend watching the entire 87-minute film. It moves quickly,…

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Review| The Good Dinosaur

Review| The Good Dinosaur

November 25, 20151

Ah, 2015. The Year of the Pixar Double Feature. The year we all sighed deeply with relief when Inside Out…

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About Reel World Theology

In today’s world, the medium of film is reaching more and more people than ever before. With American domestic box office sales of over $10 billion in 2012, cinema has a direct line into our culture, our homes, and even our beliefs. It would be foolish to think that these movies, all of which are telling narratives of heroes and villans, science fiction and history, and everything in between, do not have direct access to dictating culture and ideology.

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