More Than One Lesson

In this minisode, Tyler and Josh discuss the winner of Best Picture for 2014, Birdman.

I just got out of seeing the movie Old Fashioned. Here are some things I noticed: It was a Monday morning and the theater was packed. The movie was getting laughs from the audience throughout. When the movie ended, people applauded it. Also, as I was leaving, an older woman sitting in my aisle with her husband asked me, “Wasn’t that a wonderful movie?” while I heard another person say, “There needs to be more movies like this.” Now, if this is your audience, if this is who you are making movies for, then good job! You guys are succeeding. Not just Old Fashioned, but all Christian films. I remember leaving God’s Not Dead and seeing people genuinely excited about it, pulling out their cell phones, I’m guessing to text people, “God’s Not Dead” as the movie instructs, and then myself receiving the text “God’s Not Dead!” for several weeks after that from random Christian friends. You have an audience. Christians are going to your movies and they are going to continue to go to your movies.

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In this episode, Tyler is joined by Reed Lackey to discuss 50 Shades of Grey, The Wicker Man, and discernment.

In this minisode, Tyler and Josh discuss the Best Picture of 1988, Rain Man, directed by Barry Levinson.

In this episode, Tyler and Josh discuss Alejandro G. Inarritu’s Birdman and Spike Jonze’s Adaptation.

EPISODE BREAKDOWN

00:00:44- Intro, The Imitation Game, That’s Not Funny
00:02:45- International Christian Film Festival- Donations Welcome
00:05:10- Birdman
01:11:10- Adaptation.
01:35:10- Episode wrap-up

Picture with me, for a moment, a machine. It has its own circuits, electrical impulses, and energy source. But this machine’s purpose extends beyond programmable functions to re-programmable functions. In other words, this machine can learn, can reason, and can deduce. It can evolve.

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In this minisode, Tyler and Josh discuss Bruce Beresford’s Driving Miss Daisy, the Best Picture of 1989.

For about six months now, I’ve been trying to figure out what the big deal is about Boyhood. I had heard about the inventive filmmaking technique (segments filmed once a year for twelve years so that the actors age with the story), and that concept thrilled and fascinated me. I’ve enjoyed most of director Richard Linklater’s other works– particularly his Before trilogy of movies with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy– and the initial critical praise was overwhelmingly positive.

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In this episode, Tyler and Josh are joined by actor/director Corbin Bernsen to discuss his faith, career, and the state of Christian film.