More Than One Lesson

In this episode, Tyler and Josh discuss David Fincher’s Gone Girl and Mike Nichols’ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

EPISODE BREAKDOWN
00:00:48- Intro, Podcast Awards, Bonus Episode, International Christian Film Fest
00:04:40- Plans for May, changes to the podcast
00:11:15- Gone Girl
01:20:25- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
01:55:00- Episode wrap-up

In this minisode, Tyler and Josh discuss Sydney Pollack’s Out of Africa, Best Picture of 1985.

In this episode, Tyler and Josh discuss Alex Gibney’s Going Clear and Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man.

EPISODE BREAKDOWN
00:00:44- Intro, Battleship Pretension, Wondercon Meetup, ASMR
00:05:10- Going Clear
01:01:30- The Wicker Man (1973)
01:09:25- What’s the difference between Scientology and Christianity?
01:36:20- Episode wrap-up

Traditionally, the American Christian right is closely associated with conservatism and traditional “American” values. So it’s no surprise that Burns Family Studios, a Christian film company started by two home-schooling families, chooses to set their new film around the American Revolution. The company has one film under their belt so far, the medieval epic Pendragon: Sword of His Father, which was well received at several Christian and Family Film festivals. While Pendragon was a passion project shot in back yards and starring the Burns family themselves, Beyond the Mask is a more ambitious, higher budget project, aiming to stand alongside similar Hollywood projects.

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The first and biggest problem with Infernal, though sadly far from the only one, is its decision to emulate the “found footage” format when telling its story.

If you don’t know that term, it first came to prominence with The Blair Witch Project in 1999 and refers to a filming style wherein the narrative appears to play out as if it were captured by a home video camera: with shaky camera work, out of focus shots, and intentionally awkward angles. Since the release and success of “Blair Witch”, dozens of movies ranging from low-budget independents to major studio efforts have sought to imitate the format, with mixed results. The most recent mainstream success franchise to use this format has been the Paranormal Activity films.

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In this episode, Tyler and Josh discuss Jonathan M. Gunn’s Do You Believe? and Robert Altman’s Short Cuts.

EPISODE BREAKDOWN
00:00:44- Intro, Premium Episode, dream interpretation
00:07:40- Do You Believe?
01:29:00- Short Cuts

Josh was recently a guest on Reel World Theology, discussing Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie.

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In this minisode, Tyler and Josh discuss Oliver Stone’s Platoon, winner of Best Picture of 1986.

In this minisode, Tyler and Josh discuss Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor.