Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with guest Andy Melhuish, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.
This time, Vic Armstrong’s Left Behind.
Captain Ray Steele has it all: a beautiful wife, a loving family, a successful job as a high-flying pilot. Still, he finds his eye wandering and temptation calling. Everything changes when disaster strikes during a long-haul flight, when Ray’s co-pilot and several passengers mysterious disappear without any reason whatsoever. What could possibly abduct passengers from an airplane mid-flight? And what happens to those who are left behind?
At time of recording, it was ranked 33rd on the list of the worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show notes:
- Recorded 4th August 2019.
- Left Behind at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB Bottom 100 as it appeared at time of recording.
- Read Andy’s writing at Eloquent Bear.
- Dan Stewart at Time on the origins of “rapture” theology, June 2014.
- The Bishop of Durham talks to Time about the rapture, February 2008.
- Michael Joseph Gross at The Atlantic on the success of the Left Behind series and its Pop Christianity, January 2000.
- Dinitia Smith at The New York Times on the emergence of popular Christian literature at the turn of the millennium, June 2000.
- David Van Biema at Time on the sales spike in popular Christian fiction after 9/11, September 2001.
- Torin Monahan in Media, Culture and Society on “the apocalypse industry”, October 2008.
- Cathy Booth Thomas profiles authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins for Time, November 2004.
- Alison Willmore at Buzzfeed on the mainstreaming of Christian cinema, May 2019.
- DeVon Franklin talks to The Hollywood Reporter about his own approach to bringing faith to the masses, November 2017.
- Alissa Wilkinson at Thrillist on the evangelical film movement’s swelling popularity, March 2016.
- Alissa Wilkinson at Vox talks about the persecution complex that underscores so much evangelical cinema, April 2018.
- Jesse Hassenger at PopMatters on Left Behind, February 2015.
- Nathan Rabin discusses Left Behind at The A.V. Club, March 2016.
- Olivia Pollard at Fabiosa on the first acting role of Kal-El Cage, March 2019.
- Emmie Martin at CNBC on how Nicolas Cage blew through his $150m fortune, January 2018.
- Scott Garner at Curbed on the real estate follies of Nicolas Cage, December 2014.
- Aric S. Queen at Atlas Obscura on Nicolas Cage’s New Orleans pyramid tomb, 2015.
- Katie Rogers at The New York Times on the strange story of Nicolas Cage and the Mongolian dinosaur skull, December 2015.
- Laura Stamper at Time reports on Nicolas Cage winning China’s “Best Global Actor” Award, October 2013.
- Hadley Freeman profiles Nicolas Cage for The Guardian, October 2018.
- Ethan Hawke praises Nicolas Cage to Newsweek, September 2018.
- Nicolas Cage discusses his acting style with Esquire, September 2018.
- Nicolas Cage talks to Geekadelphia about why he chose to work on Left Behind, October 2014.
- Nicolas Cage talks to Phoenix Film Festival about the production of Left Behind, October 2014.
- Todd Cunningham at The Wrap on the marketing for Left Behind, October 2014.
- Nicolas Cage discusses whether or not he wears a wig on Good Morning America, via Celebitchy, January 2011.
- Nate Jones at Vulture on the art of respected actors selling out and cashing in, March 2016.
- Ben Walsh argues for the possible redemption of Nicolas Cage at The Independent, January 2011.
- Shea Serrano at The Ringer on Nicolas Cage as the king of the good bad movie, June 2017.
- Miles Surrey at The Ringer asks whether the podcasters in Halloween are good at their jobs, October 2018.
- Amanda Hess at The New York Times on how podcasts are breaking into Hollywood, March 2018.
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