Sightings Articles
Selling the Gospel of Positive Thinking
It's the everyday nature of the failures in "Salesman," a film about Bible salesmen, that makes the film so powerful and relatable....
October 5, 2023
This is the Way: Daoist Themes in Star Wars
Return of the Jedi resonates with themes, ideas, and symbolism from real-world religious traditions....
May 3, 2023
Getting Serious about Legally Blonde
The 2001 comedy shatters expectations about what makes a good heroine...
May 9, 2022
Evangelical Critics Are Turning Red
Outrage over a recent children's film illustrates the narrowness of evangelicalism and the experiences it has failed to understand....
April 22, 2022
When a Vow Turns Out to be... a Vow: ‘Fleabag’
Exploring religion's leading role in the hit television series “Fleabag”...
April 20, 2020
Film Resurrections and the Denial of Death
Exploring the resurrection trope in American cinema and what it reveals about us...
March 2, 2020
On the Trail of Millennial Religion with Detective Pikachu
Ed. Note: Warning: This column contains major spoilers for Pokémon: Detective Pikachu. The recent film, Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019), is the latest cinematic addition to the Pokémon series, the multimedia entertainment franchise that ex...
May 23, 2019
Religion in the Frame
Earlier this month, the Martin Marty Center, in collaboration with Facets Multimedia, successfully concluded its second annual “Religion in the Frame” film festival. Held at Facets’ cinematheque on the North Side of Chicago, the festival consisted of...