Michael Parnell is pastor of Temple Baptist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is married and has two boys. His love is for movies, and he can be found in a theater most Fridays.
Michael Parnell is pastor of Temple Baptist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is married and has two boys. His love is for movies, and he can be found in a theater most Fridays.
Being a pastor means that if a movie comes to the local theater about a pastor, I have to go see it. Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed” presents a pastor who has lost his way. Ethan Hawke is Rev. Ernst Toller, a pastor at an old historic church in upstate New York. About to celebrate its […] Read More
Change is a dangerous thing. Rapid change is more dangerous because you cannot easily account for what is taking place. “Annihilation” is a movie about change. It is about rapid change taking place on a coastline somewhere in the southern United States. The area where the change is taking place is called “Area X.” It […] Read More
The character of T’Challa / Black Panther has existed in the canon of Marvel Comics since his debut in Fantastic Four No. 52 in 1966. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created him as the first black superhero in the Marvel Universe. They did so with a clear vision of wanting to avoid all the cliches […] Read More
The narrative of history provides many a story worthy of capture on film. It is a rare narrative moment that provides for two stories to be placed on the screen, but the events of May 8 to June 4 in 1940 have yielded two best-picture nominees. Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk” tells the story of what happened […] Read More
A first word: This movie is not like how it is advertised. It looks like a comedy, but the comedic elements are really more of the dark variety. You may have seen the trailer for this film and thought, “Oh, milk chocolate.” But what you get is dark chocolate, and dark chocolate is an acquired […] Read More
A college class on the psychology of family taught me a parent often has more trouble with a child of their gender. That dynamic is clearly on display in the wonderful movie, “Lady Bird.” The title refers to the name that Christine McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) gives herself because she does not like her given name. […] Read More
One thing you learn in the wild is to avoid a mother bear and her cubs. That mother bear will do anything necessary to keep those cubs safe. “Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri” presents a human mother bear who is doing anything necessary because one of her cubs was violated. The mother is Mildred […] Read More
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