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- Co-Host, Filmspotting
- Film Critic, Think Christian
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Josh Larsen is the co-host of the radio show and podcast Filmspotting; author of Movies Are Prayers and Fear Not! A Christian Appreciation of Horror Movies; and senior producer for Think Christian, a website and podcast exploring faith and pop culture. He’s been writing and speaking about movies professionally since 1994.
Larsen’s career began in the newspaper business, where he started out as a beat reporter for a weekly community newspaper and went on to become a film critic for the Chicago-based Sun-Times Media for more than 10 years. In 2011, he joined the Christian media landscape as editor of Think Christian, and in 2012 he joined the long-running weekly podcast Filmspotting, aired on WBEZ in Chicago.
A veteran of the Sundance, Toronto and Chicago International film festivals, Larsen has given talks on film at various colleges and conferences. Since 2017, he has led “Ebert Interruptus,†a tradition established by film critic Roger Ebert, which analyzes a single film scene by scene over several days at the Conference on World Affairs.
You can connect with Larsen via josh@larsenonfilm.com, or on X, Facebook, Instagram, and Letterboxd.
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