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.
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.
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.
The film tells the story of Bill Courtney, a high school football coach and his players at Manassas High School in Memphis Tennessee.
In a new episode of The Thin Place at Film Geek Radio, Ken and Todd discuss David Spaltro's indie drama about a woman struggling to come to terms with her doubts regarding life after death.
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.
Tune in for a fascinating discussion about the differences between being assertive and being expressive, what makes a "red" thinker successful at taking up a "blue" cause, and how director Nigel Cole answered criticism that the union's victory paved the way for industrial jobs leaving England entirely.
UPDATE: A podcast on Soul Surfer at The Thin Place.
Certified Emergenetics trainer Erik Kieser joins Cindy and Ken on the podcast to discuss The Blind Side and how films can illustrate the behavioral and thinking preferences Emergenetics profiles.
Toy Story 3 versus Tangled. Human interaction versus spectacle. Who is tired of movies about misunderstood villains, and who is making a new year's resolution to watch less previews? The ladies speak up for Scott Pilgrim and The Social Network. Scott Pilgrim gets compared to True Grit, Winter's Bone gets compared to Made in Dagenham, and Inception gets compared to....Titanic?!?!?!