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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Persecuted (Lusko 2014)
While the opening ten minutes of the film certainly bring to light the great questions facing Americans as to religious orientation, the following eighty are little more than the typical action thriller.
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Masters of Sex — Three Ways the Showtime Series Surprised Me By Being Good
Showtime's serial adaptation of Thomas Maier's biography, Masters of Sex, launches its second season on July 13. Would it surprise you to hear that the series has supplanted Game of Thrones and The Good Wife as Sunday night's "we'll watch it live and DVR the rest" TV? That it did so certainly surprised me.
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Before Midnight (Linklater, 2013)
The fatalism imbuing the characters and the film is certainly representative of what many couples feel in middle-age, a period in which there are as many or more choices behind them as awaiting them and where the quality of a relationship is influenced as much by the fruit of past decisions as the pleasurable contemplation of future ones.
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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
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I’ll Follow You Down (Mehta, 2013)
Richie Mehta's Siddharth has been the film that I have admired the most in an overall lackluster 2014. So when I found out that he wrote and directed I'll Follow You Down, a sci-fi drama with many similar themes as its less commercial counterpart, I was anxious to see it.
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Five Novels That May Be Unfilmable–and the Artists We Would Like to See Try
There are more movies each year and hence the need for stories has never been greater. Technological advances have helped create special effects that would appear to make our imaginations the only limit to what could appear on screen. It's probably the case that no novel is truly unfilmable, so Hollywood may get to these eventually. I'm just not holding my breath.
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Burning Bush (Holland, 2013)
I am about to recommend a four hour movie--a three episode television miniseries, actually--in Czech, about a dissident student who sets himself on fire to protest the occupation of his country by the Soviet Union.
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Peter Brook: The Tightrope (Brook, 2012)
Film critics don't talk about acting much these days. Have they ever?
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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?