“All I wanted to do was to make something beautiful.” Reputedly, Japanese anime auteur Hayao Miyazaki was inspired to make The Wind Rises after hearing this quote from Jiro Horikoshi, the subject of Miyazaki’s first biopic. Horikoshi was the designer of the Mitsubishi A6M, a notorious aircraft used by the Empire of Japan in WW2,...
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Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis
The following is a post by our new Gospel Spam contributor Ben Riley. He will be writing film reviews for Gospel Spam. Feel free to welcome him in the comments below. Inside Llewyn Davis is a film about man who is a complete and utterly pathetic failure. Llewyn (Oscar Isaac, in a brilliant performance that...
God’s Not Dead but Christian Screen Writing Is
The Good I went to go see God’s Not Dead this weekend. I’ve read some of the early reviews and have to admit to being skeptical when I went to go see it. It’s not the best way to go see a movie with the intent of writing a review, but for the sake of...