Foxfire Farmhouse: the Podcast

With Josh flying solo, this week's episode focuses on the Zion International Film Festival and why Josh loves this particular event. If you love movies, consider attending this year's festival at the Blue Mouse Theatre in Tacoma, Washington. You can buy tickets at www. ZionFilmFest.com and receive a 20% discount using the code "FOXFIRE" at checkout. For more movie recommendations and commentary, g...

It's time to visit a classic movie; the sort of movie that everyone wants to have seen but somehow don't find time to watch it. Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" lies at the intersection of incredible and incredibly boring. Those who start it wish they hadn't and those who finish it are glad they did. Thanks to some prompting from a fellow film nerd, Sean de Moura, Josh and Elijah have beg...

Stories shape our souls. So what do we do with pagan myth? This week Elijah guides us through some of the old myths and helps us understand how to best enjoy them as Christians. He and Josh also explore how mythologies shape culture and tease out the implications of this for Christian storytellers in our time. For more movie recommendations and commentary, go to our website, www. FoxfireFarmhouse....

Every movie consists of thousands of individual images flashed in front of your eyes at varying frame rates. Sometimes, those images give the illusion of motion because they are captured by a camera, and sometimes, they give the illusion of motion because an animator drew images on the page. In other cases though, the illusion of motion comes from the meticulous moving of real objects on the scree...

Another aftershow episode! We turned the mics back on to bring you a bonus show picking up the conversation where we left off last week. We dive deeper this time into what it means to care about your work. We even wind up talking about how "Up" and insulting vegans. For more movie recommendations and commentary, go to our website, www. FoxfireFarmhouse.com. If you have any comments, questions, or...

The movie "Office Space" deals with the frustration of working in overly managed corporations. In this week's show, Elijah introduces us to this quirky comedy and helps us think through how we should engage with our workplaces. For more movie recommendations and commentary, go to our website, www. FoxfireFarmhouse.com. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for future episode topics,...

For the first time in Foxfire Farmhouse Podcast history, we have a guest on the show. Meet Brian Du, a Tulsa-based filmmaker who writes and directs absurdist comedy short films. Listen to Josh and Brian tell about how they met and the projects they worked on together. Then hear about Brian's most recent projects - one of which landed him at the West Sound Film Festival here in Bremerton, Washingto...

Welcome to the Aftershow! A fresh new episode one week early! Here's the thing. We usually sit around and talk movies and culture long after the recorder has been shut down. This time, we decided to let the recorder roll and provide bonus content for the podcast.  This time, our conversation explored Lewis and Tolkien's thoughts about Walt Disney and his classic animated feature "Snow White." You...

If you've ever tried to create something--an innovative technology, a small business, a movie script, a sermon (you get the idea)--you know it can take an enormous amount of energy and attention and still not be any good. So how did literary giants like C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien manage to produce so much and so great literature through their lifetime. Aside from their natural gifts and particu...

If you smashed "The Fox and the Hound", "Ip Man", and "Braveheart" together in a blender and threw in a musical dance number for good measure, you might just get "RRR" one of Josh and Elijah's favorite films from 2022. Aside from gaining recognition for being the most expensive movie production in India at the time of its release, it also caught the attention of the Motion Picture Academy, achievi...

Welcome back to Foxfire Farmhouse: the Podcast! What exactly is Foxfire? Is it, in fact, real fire? Or is it perhaps phosphorescent fungi? Join Josh and Elijah as they answer this very question! Warm yourself by the fire and prepare to discuss all things storytelling and digital media! From Spider-verse to Russian film theory, no stone is left unturned.  For more movie recommendations and commenta...

It's almost impossible to talk about the craft and history of filmmaking without reference to George Lucas's Star Wars trilogy. And so it's time that Josh and Elijah deal with the subject head on. Sit down and listen to us discuss what we like about Star Wars and what we don't like about the Wars for the Stars. For more movie recommendations and commentary, go to our website, www. FoxfireFarmhouse...

Filmmaking takes work. It takes courage. It takes business smarts. Join Josh and Elijah as they chat about how they hope to tell stories with digital media. For more movie recommendations and commentary, go to our website, www. FoxfireFarmhouse.com. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for future episode topics, reach out to us on Facebook or Instagram or email us at podcast@foxfire...

This week, we review "Top Gun Maverick."  If you have movies you would like for us to review or topics you would like us to tackle, please send them to podcast@foxfirefarmhouse.com. Thanks for listening. Cheers!

This week: an audio fail and a movie review. For more movie recommendations and commentary, go to our website, www. FoxfireFarmhouse.com. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for future episode topics, reach out to us on Facebook or Instagram or email us at podcast@foxfirefarmhouse.com. Cheers!

The creative process is not exactly a straight line from idea to completion. Instead, it's a zig-zag from good idea to bad idea and back again. Josh and Elijah talk through this dynamic of making things and how it applies to movie making. For more movie recommendations and commentary, go to our website, www. FoxfireFarmhouse.com. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for future episo...

No fluff. Just another review of another animated movie: The Lego Movie. For more movie recommendations and commentary, go to our website, www. FoxfireFarmhouse.com. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for future episode topics, reach out to us on Facebook or Instagram or email us at podcast@foxfirefarmhouse.com. Cheers!

"Freedom!" After being mocked, canceled, egged, starved to death, tarred and feathered, and forced to run across broken glass Die Hard-style, Josh finally watched Mel Gibson's "Braveheart." Listen in to hear what he thinks of the movie and why it might be the first "R" rated movie Elijah will show his son. For more movie recommendations and commentary, go to our website, www. FoxfireFarmhouse.com....

Are movies dead? Some say that movies are following the dodo bird out of town; but what do the guys at the Farmhouse think? Join Elijah and Josh to think through the naysayer's claims.  For more movie recommendations and commentary, go to our website, www. FoxfireFarmhouse.com. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for future episode topics, reach out to us on Facebook or Instagram o...

The team turns their sights on Pixar's newest flick, "Turning Red". TLDR: It's not good.  For more movie recommendations and commentary, go to our website, www. FoxfireFarmhouse.com. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for future episode topics, reach out to us on Facebook or Instagram or email us at podcast@foxfirefarmhouse.com. Cheers!

Few arts evoke emotion as potently as music. It can move your or water your eyes. It's a powerful magic that can serve both evil and good. How do we know which music reverberates truth and which turns our hearts toward evil? That's some of what Josh and Elijah attempt to understand in today's episode of Foxfire Farmhouse. For movie recommendations and commentary, go to our website, www. FoxfireFar...

No movie news. No cool things. Just a movie Review.  For more movie recommendations and commentary, go to our website, www. FoxfireFarmhouse.com. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for future episode topics, reach out to us on Facebook or Instagram or email us at podcast@foxfirefarmhouse.com. Cheers!

The studio execs loved our Esther story so much they called and asked us to put together a pitch for a film rendition of the story of Samson. Listen in to hear Josh and Elijah toss around ideas about who should direct and star in "Samson: A Star Wars Story."  For movie recommendations and commentary, go to our website, www. FoxfireFarmhouse.com. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions...

What is the imagination and how does it contribute to the life of faith? Josh and Elijah think out loud about the role of the imagination in art and life in this week's installment of Foxfire Farmhouse: the Podcast. For more movie recommendations and commentary, go to our website, www. FoxfireFarmhouse.com. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for future episode topics, reach out to...

It's another night in Gotham. The streets are soaked in shadow and dripping with fear. Criminals hide from a masked man who wants to interfere with their  dark purposes. But in a small farmhouse on the edge of town, two aspiring filmmakers fight over whether or not the Batman is all that he's cracked up to be. Specifically, if the new take on his character through the directorial lens of Matt Reev...