Earth to Echo (Green 2014)
A sweet, fun movie that will please everyone except the boomers who will want to insist their sweet, fun movies were better
Category: Disclosure–AS
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The Thin Place #46: Violence in The Edge of Tomorrow
Back after a hiatus, Ken and Todd discuss Doug Liman's sci-fi film, The Edge of Tomorrow. Why is the way violence is represented in the film particularly disturbing? Are we intended to laugh at it? And why does Todd say the movie reminded him of watching someone play a video game?
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22 Jump Street (Lord & Miller, 2014)
For now, I'll will just say that my defense of 22 Jump Street is nearly identical to my defense of Moms' Night Out. You can make a list as long as my arm of things wrong with the movie, and I won't disagree. But I laughed.
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Frank vs. God (Schill, 2014)
Frank vs. God is one of my favorite films thus far into the movie year, and it is without a doubt one of the better "religious" films of those recently released.
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Locke (Knight, 2014)
It is a good movie, certainly, and it is not writer/director Steven Knight's fault that we live in an age that appears only to recognize two critical verdicts: awesome or awful. There is less room in the conversation for the good, modest movie.
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Bad Words (Bateman, 2013)
Bad Words is the third film I have seen in as many weeks featuring an emotionally arrested adult male mentoring an adolescent boy.
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Endless Love (Feste, 2014)
Endless Love is a bad movie, and, yeah, I pretty much liked it.
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The Monuments Men (Clooney, 2013)
The Monuments Men is perhaps only a failure in comparison to its unrealized potential. The whole way home I kept thinking, "But it's such a great idea for a movie."
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Mars at Sunrise (Habie, 2014)
Films about Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, while not exactly a dime a dozen in the United States, are enough of a staple of world cinema that upon hearing of a new one the first question is usually not "is it good?" but "does it distinguish itself?"
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God’s Not Dead (Cronk, 2014)
My problems with God's Not Dead are almost all ones of execution, not concept.