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.
Category: Elsewhere
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Blue Like Jazz and other Podcasts
I have been busy podcasting over at Film Geek Radio. New episodes include discussions with Todd C. Truffin about Blue Like Jazz, Primary Colors, and Love Free or Die.
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Miss Representation (Newsom, 2011)
My review of Jennifer Siebel Newsom's Miss Representation, and some meditations about how women are portrayed in American media are now available at Her.meneneutics, Christianity Today's blog for women.
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Undefeated (Lindsay and Martin, 2011)
The film tells the story of Bill Courtney, a high school football coach and his players at Manassas High School in Memphis Tennessee.
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Kwapis, 2005)
The acting is terrific. Amber Tamblyn is very, very good. America Ferrara is, quite simply, fabulous. Ferrara gave a knockout performance in Real Women Have Curves and backs it up here. I will gladly go see her next three movies without knowing anything about them other than that she is in them.
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part I (Condon, 2011)
While I do not count myself amongst the franchise's devotees—I have read the first book and seen all the films, mostly out of anthropological curiosity—I have come to wonder whether some its most hostile critics might be engaged in what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick calls "paranoid readings."
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Alps (Lanthimos, 2011)
Over at The Thin Place, the podcast I host at Film Geek Radio, Todd Truffin and I have just wrapped a special episode on Giorgos Lanthimos’s Alps.
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Soul Surfer (McNamara, 2011)
UPDATE: A podcast on Soul Surfer at The Thin Place.
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Miral (Schnabel, 2010)
Julian Schnabel's latest film brings to the screen the autobiographical novel of Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal. Here is a link to my review at Christianity Today Movies and TV.