Ten years ago, when I first read Wm. Paul Young’s novel?The Shack, I was drawn in by the murder mystery: young Mack Phillips loses his daughter to a serial killer. Who killed little Missy? I wondered as I read. Suddenly, I found myself in the middle of a theological conversation about God’s grace, judgment, forgiveness,…
In the fifteen years I’ve spent writing about media online, only three things have earned me digital (and real-life) tongue-lashings. My proposal that?Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice?is better than?Captain America: Civil War. My belief that?The Shack?explains spiritual truths in a real and powerful way. My admiration for the sometimes bespectacled Rob Bell, former pastor,…
The Godfather?is forty-five years old. Let that soak in for a minute. Now, Paramount Pictures has re-released?The Godfather?trilogy on Blu-ray for fans who want to collect them in high definition. But Francis Ford Coppola’s film has defined mob movies since then, and even occasionally influenced the mob (apparently). For everyone else, the admiration for the…
The Department of Justice sends an up-and-coming lawyer, Preston Terry (Selma, Race), and a seasoned investigator, Ashe Akino (Sanaa Lathan, The Best Man?series,?Love & Basketball), to investigate the shooting of a white college student by an African American sheriff’s deputy?in a small, North Carolina town. But their investigation is a tangled web of lies and…
Tibetan mastiff Bodi (Luke Wilson) has a strange encounter with music that changes his life when a radio falls from the sky into his village on Snow Mountain. Turning his back on his father’s (J.K. Simmons) desires for his life as the next guard of the village, he pursues rock god Angus Scattergood (Eddie Izzard)…
Tom Brady might be New England but David Ortiz is Boston. While the three-time World Series champion might have been “just” a talented designated hitter on an American League team fighting decades of failure to the world before Patriot’s Day 2013, afterward, he was the galvanizing face of a city that stood against terrorism, fear,…
Asa Butterfield has been making films since he was nine years old, with big names and big themes like?Hugo,?Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,?and?The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Now, he returns to the setting of his sci-fi epic?Ender’s Game:?space. With a script from Allan Loeb (Collateral Damage), Butterfield plays Gardner Elliott, the first child…
Just days before Gal Gadot will hit the big screen, reprising Lynda Carter’s terrific role, Warner Bros. re-releases the commemorative edition of the animated feature film,?Wonder Woman. Originally released direct-to-DVD in 2009, and written by Gail Simone (based on legendary George Perez’s storyline “Gods and Mortals”), the story features the voice work of Keri Russell,…
Based on Liane Moriarty’s book of the same name,?Big Little Lies?explores the darkest secrets of a circle of otherwise ‘normal’ moms. You can win a digital code by entering below – otherwise, you’ll be waiting to buy the Blu-ray/DVD copy in August! Right now, enter the name of your favorite TV drama to be considered…
In the debut our new page, “OtherFish,” where we’ll cover the various pieces of media that catch our attention that aren’t?movies or television, I am proud to present the work of one of our own ScreenFishers, Jason Norton. After years of slaving away over writing, editing, and journaling his own stories, Norton has proudly release…
