The Thin Place #54: Entourage — Making New Fans and Displeasing Old Ones
In the newest episode of The Thin Place, Alex McKee subs in for Todd to discuss whether or not one has to know the Entourage television show to like the movie.
Category: Podcasts
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The Thin Place #53: Tokyo Story and the Ideal of Family
In the latest episode, Todd and Ken discuss Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story.
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The Thin Place #50: The Equalizer, King David, and Righteous Anger
Is it okay to hate the wicked? To celebrate their downfall? If so, when? And what are the spiritual dangers of doing so?
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The Thin Place #48: Lucy–God or Godlike?
Lucy is a summer popcorn movie, to be sure. But when a movie has this much God symbolism, you can bet The Thin Place is going to ponder what it all is supposed to mean.
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The Thin Place #47: Fever Pitch–Obsession or Idolatry?
As the World Cup draws to a close, Ken and Todd discuss one of the best films ever made about our obsession with sports
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T. C. Johnstone Interview
Director T. C. Johnstone visited Campbell University as part of its Undergraduate Lecture Symposium. He talks with us about how he got into film making and the challenges of filming Rising From Ashes.
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The Thin Place #44: Two Views of Wall Street
In the most recent edition of The Thin Place Podcast, Todd Truffin joins me to discuss Oliver Stone's Wall Street and compare it to Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street.
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Jackson, 2012)
Parts are camp comedy, parts CGI sword slashing, parts solemn intonations about fate and when not to kill.
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The Sessions (Lewin, 2012)
The same thing that makes The Sessions better than expected is what makes it naggingly incomplete: it takes sex seriously.
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Prometheus (Scott, 2012)
Prometheus's biggest problem is not a lack of ambition, but of execution. The film is at no loss for ideas, but it can't really pause to catch its breath long enough to develop any of them.