Undefended is posted every Friday. All FilmFisher writers are given a prompt and respond with a list of five items, none of which are explained or rationalized. This week… … the five most humane villains? Summer blockbusters tend to flatten villains out until they are nothing but demons, although realistic dramas are often apt to…Read On
Undefended is posted every Friday. All FilmFisher writers are given a prompt and respond with a list of five items, none of which are explained or rationalized. This week… …the top 5 greatest summer blockbusters of the last 20 years. As a slight editorial note, from here on out, the Undefended list is going to…Read On
There was a man I knew, an elder at his church, who, whenever he was called upon to announce a pregnancy, preferred the euphemism “with child” because in his youth the word “pregnant” in reference to a woman was deemed inappropriate for public use. I thought it was funny that he couldn’t bring himself to…Read On
Undefended is posted every Friday. All FilmFisher writers are given a prompt and respond with a list of five items, none of which are explained or rationalized. This week, we’re honored to have guest contributor Doug Jones, the author of numerous books, most recently Dismissing Jesus: How We Evade the Way of the Cross. On the…Read On
Undefended is posted every Friday. All FilmFisher writers are given a prompt and respond with a list of five items, none of which are explained or rationalized. This week… …the five greatest movie trailers of all time. Joseph Gross: 1. Terminator 2: Judgement Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKtWhBtvHQU 2. Moon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twuScTcDP_Q 3. A Scanner Darkly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVnvilLFk2Y 4. Man…Read On
Depending on how narrowly you define “drama,” I’m not sure Sofia Coppola has ever made one, though all her films get classed as such. When I think of a drama, I think of Ordinary People or Rain Man, something with a little high-vaulted emotion, a confession, dynamic characters and perceptible change. Someone gets judged…Read On
Undefended is posted every Friday. All FilmFisher writers are given a prompt and respond with a list of five items, none of which are explained or rationalized. This week… …the five greatest Hitchcock movies Hitchcock never made. A single caveat: no Clouzot movies allowed. Justin Spencer: 1. Talented Mr. Ripley 2. The Usual Suspects…Read On
Over the next month or so, we’ll publish a series of articles on cinematic “objectionable content”: one article on vulgar and obscene language in film, another on sex and nudity in film, and a final article on violence in film. I am not content that the Christian conversation about objectionable content has been particularly sophisticated; while…Read On
