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This past weekend, many headlines lamented the passing of Olivia de Havilland, the last living star of Gone With the Wind. Indeed, de Havilland, who celebrated her 104th birthday just a few weeks ago on July 1st, represented the final lingering glory of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
How “Chosen” looks at the life of Christ differently from other Jesus movies.
How the science fiction genre’s first Feature Film is still one of the genre’s best.
As I continue in my own growth as a cinephile and human being, I find there is a lot of crossover between my spiritual struggles and disciplines and the disciplines I am attempting to build into my media life.
Michael joins Jason Lacy and Lucas Rose for an episode of their podcast “What the Fluxtaposed, a slice of life podcast with a healthy portion of video games and infantile humor. Check your ears, we got a live one here.
Michael and Director/Film Professor Joshua Courtade discuss their movie viewing and focus on TV’s history and impact on American society as both a diagnostic tool and shaping device for culture.
Michael and Jared Nedza discuss and share their experiences working for a video rental store at the end of its life cycle as well as catch up on the past year of movie watching.
Now I have a couple more podcasts already lined up so you can expect regular podcast episodes on Fridays again and, if we start getting enough feedback again, you’ll see those bonus community response episodes as well.
In this first ep of a 10 Episode Season, Michael and Chris Yiesla (editor) discuss their experiences watching films alone this past year and contrasting it with watching movies in a group setting. How do those we watch a film with affect our opinions and experiences of the movies.
Our Question of the week is “WHAT DID MOVIES MEAN TO YOU IN 2020?”
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I watched the Netflix Documentary “The Social Dilemma” after getting an EXTREMELY strong recommendation from a friend and long time creative collaborator, Todd Lewis, a filmmaker and mainstay actor of the Grand Rapids theater scene.
Of course, as usual, I wanted to discuss the movie with him so that conversation is our feature this week.
Michael and Shirley discuss both the film “Cuties” (now available on Netflix) and the controversy surrounding it due to its subject matter and content which focuses on an 11 year old girl coming of age in a contradictory and bifurcated world.
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Reflections on Easter Weekend, 2021.