- byTimothy Lawrence
- 2 years ago
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
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
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
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.
- byTimothy Lawrence
- 2 years ago
No filmmaker balances the visceral and the cerebral quite like David Cronenberg, the director of modern horror classics like The Brood, Videodrome, and The Fly, as well as...
- byTimothy Lawrence
- 2 years ago
The father/son movie is practically a genre unto itself. For heaven’s sake, all of Star Wars could plausibly be described as a story about fathers...
- byTimothy Lawrence
- 2 years ago
For this month's Undefended lists, FilmFisher's writers picked the best animated films (not quite the same as "best-animated films") of all time. Chime in with your own selections in the comments!
- byTimothy Lawrence
- 2 years ago
For this month's Undefended lists, FilmFisher's writers picked their favorite performances by actors playing against type. Feel free to chime in with your own picks in the comments section!
- byTimothy Lawrence
- 2 years ago
"They that sow in tears shall reap in joy." The closing sequence of Fantasia (1940), Walt Disney’s daringly conceived “concert feature,” may be the zenith of the studio’s animated output. In what the film’s narrator describes as “the struggle between the profane and the sacred,” the grotesque, hellish revels of Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” give way to the majestic solemnity and quiet holiness of Schubert’s “Ave Maria.”
- byTimothy Lawrence
- 3 years ago
In the spirit of Holy Week, FilmFisher's writers were asked to select the best depictions of faith on film. Chime in with your own selections in the comments!