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In our latest episode, we invited our Area area bud, Ryan Jiminez back to the show for a quick review of Bong Joon-Ho’s ‘OKJA’. Hit the play button to hear lots of pop news updates as well as some of our personal recommendations for both, TV and film. Stay safe and be kind to each other.
Podcast music:
Onarres.
Segment arrangements:
Admiral Atlas.
Intro: trailer.
Outro: teaser.
Mixed and edited:
Wesley Swanson.

2021 Academy Awards Series

Kenny and Mike discuss the film Mank and spot faith elements in the David Fincher, Academy Award nominated film starring Gary Oldman as screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz. The film examines Mank's writing the screenplay of Citizen Kane as he struggles to overcome the physcial injuries of an automobile accident, alcoholism, and the ever challenging demands of Orson Wells. 

Replicating the non-linear form of Citizen Kane, Mank uses flashbacks that depict Mank's relationships within MGM and the Hollywood establishment, most William Randolph Hearst and Hearst's mistress actress Marion Davies who would both become the primary subjects of Kane. Fincher wanted Mank to replicate the look, sound, and feel of Citizen Kane so he shot the film in stark black and white, employed similar audio techniques and dramatic editing.  

Faith Elements spotted:

Purpose and Call for Humilty. Mank and Citizen Kane demonstrate the purpose of Biblical calls for humility among the people of God.  Exodus 10:3, Numbers 12:3, Proverbs 11:2, Matthew 23:12, and 2 Philippians among many passages. In contrast to the Judeo-Christian traditions and teaching to humbly act, serve and honor God, pride takes the focus off God and places it on the individual and allows fame and self-glory to become an idol. The narrative about King David, (1 Samuel 16- 2 Samuel) shows the need for humility and consequences of pride as does the request of James and John to be elevated above other disciples. (Matthew 20:20, Mark 10:35)

Like the call to faithfully use talents spotted in One Night in Miami, the call is to use one's talents (God-given) righteously, humbly, and avoid misusing them (pride). Followers of Christ are called to examine and reflect so as to be able to identify one's talents.

 

 

Anoressia, bulimia, binge eating: come sta raccontando i disturbi alimentari il cinema contemporaneo? Film come To the bone, con protagonista Lily Collins, sono adatti a descrivere chi ne soffre? Ne parliamo con la giornalista Maruska Albertazzi, regista del documentario Hangry Butterflies - La Rinascita delle Farfalle, per scoprire che, superata la tentazione estetizzante, il cinema può fare molto per sensibilizzare e far riflettere sul tema.
A cura di Claudia Catalli

We had so much to ask the cast and crew of Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, we thought we'd give you an extended talk with actors Zac Efron and Lily Collins, and director Joe Berlinger.

The Ted Bundy biopic is in cinemas now, and on Sky Cinema.

Real-life professional American football player (and actual human being, mind you) Michael Oher, who is the subject of the 2009 Oscar-nominated sappy box office smash hit “The Blind Side,” isn’t the biggest fan of how he was depicted in this movie — and we can’t blame him.

It depicts him as a dopey vagrant who can barely fend for himself and who has absolutely no understanding of the game of football, until, one day, a white family (mainly Sandra Bullock, who won an Oscar for Best Actress for this somehow) saves him and teaches him how to be great at the game — single-handedly paving his way to Ole Miss and then the NFL.

In reality, Michael Oher had been playing football all his life, was already a star athlete at the rich white school where Sandra Bullock’s character’s family met him, and achieved his goals all on his own.

But, hey, when has Hollywood ever let the truth get in the way of a good story? Well, actually, that’s a stretch, because this movie’s story is equally as awful as its bastardization of what actually happened.

Join us as we tear apart this insanely racist, cheesy and manipulative mess that isn’t even good enough for the likes of Lifetime.

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