- byTimothy Lawrence
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Thus saith the Lord; a voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted, because they...
- byTimothy Lawrence
- 1 year ago
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Happy New Year! At the end of December, it is customary for the FilmFisher team to compose "Best of the Year" lists. As 2021 comes to a close, our writers selected their favorite new releases.
- byTimothy Lawrence
- 1 year ago
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In the church calendar, the merriment of Christmas is swiftly followed by two more sober feasts: St. Stephen on December 26th, named for the...
- byTimothy Lawrence
- 1 year ago
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This Christmas season, FilmFisher's writers picked their favorite Christmas films. The prompt was, of course, interpreted in a wide variety of ways, but as Joshua Gibbs writes in The 25th, "there is a Christmas version of nearly everything: Christmas music, Christmas food, Christmas drink, Christmas dress, Christmas books, Christmas movies, Christmas colors, and Christmas spices... While children are the greatest beneficiaries of Christmas, there are Christmas movies for old people and young people, black people and white people, conservative people and progressive people, smart people and cynical people... If it is a part of life, it is represented somewhere within Christmas culture."
- byTimothy Lawrence
- 1 year ago
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With No Time to Die out today, Daniel Craig concludes a fifteen year long run playing James Bond, one of the most iconic characters in cinema history. Before the release of the new film, Travis Kyker and Timothy Lawrence revisited Craig's four previous outings as Bond.
- byTimothy Lawrence
- 2 years ago
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It has become increasingly common for films to fill their soundtracks with pop music, though this is often done very poorly. The songs can be too...
- byTimothy Lawrence
- 2 years ago
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Over the last ten years, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, whose credits include The Favourite, The Lobster, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, has persistently...
- byTimothy Lawrence
- 2 years ago
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Six-shooters and ten-gallon hats, homesteads and horses, frontier towns and Monument Valley – these are the icons of the western, though they do not quite...
- byTimothy Lawrence
- 2 years ago
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For this month's Undefended lists, FilmFisher's writers picked their favorite westerns of all time – though of course there was some creative interpretation of what exactly constitutes a western.