Two lads comparing two narratives. The love of games and films with the love of biblical theology create a conversation that helps us understand themes that run through all of storytelling. What will we discover about art and scripture?

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Just your casual podcast episode discussing personal gifts, reconciliation and the themes of continuationism and cessationism related to gifts. That&#39;s what we get out of Disney films. And yes we do talk about Bruno.

Director's Cut: Encanto

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The 40-Year-Old Virgin explores sexual integrity in a charming and humorous way. Although a secular production, its values are surprisingly in line with Christian values. We swear we try not to sound like cringe youth pastors that talk about...the sex. This isn&#39;t a sex-ed podcast for your classroom talk. All we&#39;re saying is just wait till marriage bruh.

Director's Cut: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

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Merry Christmas, the time is finally here. We celebrate the incarnation and the day of gathering together because of God&#39;s grace. In the final episode of this Christmas series we discuss the classic &#39;It&#39;s a Wonderful Life&#39; and its display of grace, love and the fruits of life itself.

Crossover Christmas: 1 Wonderful Life

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To snuggle up and enjoy Christmas Eve we decided to present 2 bedtime stories for you instead of us commenting on everyone else&#39;s stories. We have a story about a pirate that delivered Christmas and a story about the galactic struggle for the nativity. Have a wonderful Christmas. God bless.

Crossover Christmas: 2 Bedtime Stories

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This episode switches up our usual commentary style. There&#39;s no discussion, but rather 3 tunes that we put together for fun.

Crossover Christmas: 3 Christmas No. 1s

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Today we talk about probably the second greatest Christmas story (first being the Nativity) and how its great message is delivered through many adaptations. We pick 4 of our favourites and walk through their unique deliveries.

Crossover Christmas: 4 Christmas Carol Adaptations

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For this festive episode we discuss 2 great films and try not to hate on the 4 others. It&#39;s the 6 Home Alone films and our unfiltered opinions on what works and what doesn&#39;t.

Crossover Christmas: 6 Home Alone Films

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We like Christmas movies, you like them too but we know the best and you will love them too. Another classic case of imposed opinions this Christmas; this is 7 festive favourite films liked predominantly because of nostalgia.

Crossover Christmas: 7 Festive Favourite Films (Because...Nostalgia)

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We&#39;ve looked at the best of the best and the best of the worst, now perhaps we have the worst of the best of the worst list for Netflix Christmas Films. This unfiltered and unedited discussion will take you through our painful experience enduring these films.

Crossover Christmas: 8 Naff Netflix Christmas Films

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Each year we celebrate Christmas with many traditions, but why is this the case? We talk through some traditions that we&#39;ve observed and comment a bit on the theology and history behind them. What traditions will you pay more attention to today?

Crossover Christmas: 9 Christmas Traditions

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This team is made up of a film music student and a professional music listener, so it only seems fair to impose our opinions as objective facts onto all the lovely listeners. We give you our top 10 Christmas songs Watchmojo style, because we&#39;re super original.

Crossover Christmas: (Top) 10 Christmas Songs

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Without a doubt this is one of the most controversial and ridiculous episodes that we&#39;ve ever published, but it&#39;s brilliant. We share some terrible Christmas sermons in a parody. Some are from experience, some are made up, but all of them will make you giggle and cringe.

Crossover Christmas: 11 Dodgy Sermons

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We&#39;re back and kicking off the new Christmas series &#34;Crossover Christmas&#34; with the very best of the very worst Christmas dad jokes. For the next 12 days coming up to Christmas we&#39;ll be releasing some fun creative projects. Little bit of a giggle during the advent season. Enjoy.

Crossover Christmas: 12 Christmas Dad Jokes

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We recently viewed Free Guy and in this episode we voice our opinions on the structure of the story and the way it builds its world. Perhaps one of our more critical conversations, however it has helped us understand more of what we love about visual storytelling.

Director's Cut: Free Guy & Narrative Over Cool Concept

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A new series that embodies what we discuss mostly when the microphone is off. Our first episode is on CCM, a key topic that overlaps creativity and theology when shared within the Church. We discuss its theological implications and its practicality within modern worship.

Creative Convos: Contemporary Christian Music (CCM)

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We took a very long break during huge periods of both our lives and now we&#39;re finally back with a new series of discussions, firstly starting with Disney&#39;s Aladdin (1992). We look at human motivations and how each character goes through an arc of development through this story from our childhoods.

Director's Cut: Aladdin (1992) on Motivations and Character Development

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We discuss Marvel&#39;s first TV series as part of the MCU timeline and its strong theme of grief for loved ones. We explore the process demonstrated in this show as a way to briefly understand the grief that is shared within our current world.

Director's Cut: Wandavision & The Technicolours of Grief

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We discuss a cherished show that Brandon has recently started and finished in the space of 2 weeks. Avatar&#39;s characters and the exploration of themes found in both Eastern and Western cultures is the centre of this conversation.

Director's Cut: Avatar & Cross-Cultural Themes Found in Loveable Characters (Pt.1)

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This discussion scrapes the surface of a lot of strong themes in this classic film, but most prominently and unexpectadely the role of Christof is our main focus. His role as the creator and caregiver to the Truman Show demonstrates his and man&#39;s vice with power, and how theism can be analyzed in comparison to the god complex found in Christof.

Director's Cut: The Truman Show & The God Complex of The 'Creator'

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As two latecomers to the film, we express our love for this well-aged Disney film, combining serious themes with superb comedy. The natural progression of redemption through compassion is the key theme of our discussion.

Director's Cut: The Emperor's New Groove and The Result of Compassion

Two lads comparing two narratives. The love of games and films with the love of biblical theology create a conversation that helps us understand themes that run through all of storytelling. What will we discover about art and scripture?