Zachary Lee
Freelance Journalist
Zachary Lee is a freelance writer covering the intersection between faith and media. With his spare time, he happily evangelizes about and logs films on Letterboxd, collects and poses action figures, and often writes down the funny and/or profound quotations the people around him say (that they’ve probably forgotten about).
Favorite Director(s):
Damien Chazelle, James Wan, Luca Guadagnino, Sofia Coppola, Ava DuVernay
Guilty Pleasure Movie:
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Artificial Intelligence Movie Draft (w/ Zachary Lee)
While artificial intelligence has burst on the scene as a huge cultural topic in recent years, there is a long history of AI stories in film. This week, we do a movie draft of films dealing with artificial intelligence. We …
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (w/ Zachary Lee)
With A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Steven Spielberg dove headfirst into sci-fi storytelling more than he ever had before. With incredible production design, another great child performance for Spielberg in Haley Joel Osment, ...
Directors' Flops Movie Draft (w/ Zachary Lee)
Sometimes even the best directors have a big ol’, old fashioned FLOP. This week, we decided to follow up our discussion of Spielberg’s critical and audience flop with a movie draft of some of our most renowned directors’ flop...
1941 (w/ Zachary Lee)
In 1941, the 1979 WWII comedy, we have a prime example of a powerhouse director putting out a complete flop. Steven Spielberg along with writers in Robert Zemecki & Bob Gale and producer John Milius were trying to ride the …
The Dark Knight Rises (w/ Zachary Lee)
The Dark Knight Rises was an ambitious end to Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. Its epic scale feels like the natural target of the trajectory that this trilogy and Nolan’s career overall had been taking. Our discussion spa...