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?
Category: The Thin Place
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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.
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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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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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Things I Don’t Understand (Spaltro, 2011)
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.