Elvis & Nixon?highlights the iconic collision of two, larger-than-life personas, as Elvis Presley (Michael Shannon) gains an audience with the thirty-seventh president of the United States, Richard Nixon (Kevin Spacey). Set in 1970, director Liza Johnson’s film has that “Crazy but True” featurette attached – but it’s just as much a tagline for the exploration…
No movie has proved more polarizing in the history of ScreenFish than?Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. While the staff (broadly speaking) loves superhero films and many of us love comic books, the opinions on the theatrical release of?B v S are firmly located at opposite ends of the spectrum. And then?Dawn of Justice Ultimate…
What does a miracle look like? In the case of Christy Beam, it was all about what her daughter experienced … inside the trunk of the tree out back! Share your favorite story of a time when God showed up in your life or someone else’s below to enter for a chance to win!
Reagan era drug wars are the setting for The Infiltrator. Based on a true story, Federal agent Robert Mazur (Bryan Cranston) has been working undercover catching drug dealers, but thinks a more productive way to do it would be to follow the money to the t
When he developed All in the Family he created a whole new way of doing American TV. The way he describes it at one point in the film is, ?We were engaging in reality.? He wanted his shows to reflect real people acting in what he considers ?the foolishness of the human condition?.
Films sometimes approach adultery as just another way to find happiness. After all, when you meet someone and fall in love, why shouldn?t you be together. Of course real life is never that simple.
This week on the show, Chris Utley joins Steve to discuss INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE, the sequel to the 1996 classic alien film. Plus, the guys talk about the least and most successful reboots/sequels. Want to continue to conversation at home? ?Click the link below to download ?Fishing for More? ? some small group questions…
Is the murderous gang really trying to do something good by leading the FBI to bigger criminals? If so, does that justify what they are doing?
I find it interesting that the same year Steven Spielberg brought us E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, children?s book author Roald Dahl published The BFG, a kind of bedtime fairy tale. Now Spielberg brings Dahl?s story to the big screen with all the visual magic it deserves.
The film touches on the question of how God can allow such evil to exist, but without dwelling on it or trying to answer such and unanswerable question. Rather it focuses on how one moves on in the aftermath of such devastation?whether personal or societal.
