Link to the show: Young Adult Movie Ministry Vol. 2, Episode 5 on Substack
Release date: September 27, 2021
Movie of the Week
There Will Be Blood (2007), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
[Streaming on Netflix]
Who the Hosts Are This Week
Sam is editor of Forever Wars, film critic for NBC News: Think and an oilman. Alissa is Vox’s film critic and she drinks your milkshake.
Special Guest
Vinson Cunningham is an essayist, humorist, and theater critic at The New Yorker.
Other Mentions
- Movies that TWBB reminded the crew of:
- Tim Keller and Rick Warren (megachurch pastors who were positioned in the late 2000s as public intellectuals)
- An upcoming film about televangelists with roots in Pentecostalism
- Lyman Stewart, founder of Union Oil and publisher of “The Fundamentals” (also, go read Darren Dochuk on this topic – Ed.)
- Pentecost Sunday
- The Lady in the Lake (Raymond Chandler novel)
- Adam Driver on SNL as an oilman
What we learned today
Alissa: Not all clergypeople are Christian!
Vincent: “Follow me and I will make you oilmen.”
Sam: “I just want a milkshake.”
