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film criticism

Is “God’s not Dead” a modern classic?

May 6, 2014 by Randal

Over the last two days I have receive some substantial backlash for my criticism of the current domineering popularity of middling superhero movies at the box office. The primary charge seems to have been that I am elitist in my opinions. But there is an ironic twist to this story. After some discussion with my two […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: aesthetics, film criticism, movies

How many ‘F’ words in a film is TOO many?

August 9, 2011 by Randal

It has been nineteen years since conservative commentator and film critic Michael Medved published the bestseller Hollywood vs. America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values (HarperCollins, 1992), a book that made him a hero for “family values” conservatives across North America. While Medved made some valid points about the debasedness of some pop […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: censorship, ethics, film criticism, Hollywood vs. America, Michael Medved, moralism, morality, profanity

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