Film Reviews Killers of My Substack Journal: New films by Scorsese and Fincher In a season of intensifying violence — in American neighborhoods, and in battlefields of global significance — some of our best filmmakers are telling stories about gun-wielding villains. I've just published thoughts on The Killer and Killers of the Flower Moon.
Film Reviews Oscar-bait extravagance: Mank is a mess In David Fincher's much-anticipated epic about the origins of Citizen Kane, its political context, and its troubled screenwriter, so much artistry is spent on ambitious and extravagant scenes. But there's no magic happening here.
On Movies & Media How cameras take control In my new Faith and Film course at Seattle Pacific University, we're spicing up our post-movie discussions with some videos that train us to see more clearly just how filmmakers are using their cameras to influence our experience. The more we understand how artists seek to capture our
On Movies & Media The Christian Message of David Fincher's Gone Girl . . . (Not Really) One of my favorite writers on the subject of art, faith, and culture — Alissa Wilkinson — has seen "Gone Girl," the new film by David Fincher. Let's ask her: "What's the message of the movie?"
