On my mind today....

Podcasting: The Film Podcast

Recording tonight for the film podcast, we're gonna be talking about the best of 2012....

one of my honorable mentions will be Iron Sky!

http://thefilmpodcast.com/

more to come>

Parker (2013)

... first off let me get this out there... I liked the film over all, Statham was good as Parker, I would put him behind Lee Marvin and Robert Duvall but ahead of the rest of the pack.... the over all cast was solid to excellent with Michael Chiklis, Wendell Pierce, Daniel Bernhardt, Bobby Cannavale and Emma Booth in fine supporting roles. 

The weak link? Jlo... it was like she was in a Dortmunder film rather than a Parker flick... it's not that she's bad on screen, it's that she's too light and comedic in her presence. She has done gritty before, but here she just can't carry it off. I would have loved to see an Elizabeth Perkins or a Dina Myers in her role... that said I wonder what it would have been like if she had played Claire? 

Solid plot, that I was with when it was driving forward like in the books, it was only when it got into J lo feeling sorry for herself and quipping that things started to drag. One interesting thought that came to me was, what if J Lo played Claire (as I already mentioned) or what if Chicklis was Parker? 

final grade? C+/ 7.00 I will check it out again on blu/DVD and want to hear a commentary track. I hope there is enough interest in the film to green light a follow up, maybe one where the film makers are able to take a stronger hand and play Parker with more grit.

(my car when I came out of seeing Parker)

Of course for all your Parker needs check:

http://parkerseries.uchicago.edu/

http://violentworldofparker.com/

film discoveries of 2012...

 my top 5 film discoveries of 2012....

more to come....

2013 .... go !

Happy New Year.  I know that the restless kind has been the sleeping kind most of the last year, but my aim for 2013 is to post here more this year. 

To that end... looking forward to 2013 I am looking forward to the following films:

56 Up

Gangster Squad

ParkerA Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan IIIPacific Rim 

More to come...

Aug 1... feeling Restless

Yep it's been a while since I posted here... things have been busy. In the last couple of months I have moved into a house that I bought with my brother and am still getting settled in. With all of that and my normal work schedule I haven't been writing, doing much reading or thinking about this blog..

Going forward I hope to get back to adding posts more often. I am still sending in audio segments to both Outside the Cinema podcast and the Love That Album podcast.

more to come.

Eric

FFB: Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

I found Earth Abides because of a stray comment (ok many be not so stray comment) from Stephen King, where he mentioned the Earth Abides as an inspiration for The Stand. It latter came up when I was sitting in a History of the American West Class during my final year of college. We were assigned to read a book about the Donner Party, written by one George R. Stewart, who in addition to being Professor of English at U at Berkley who had written Earth Abides.

The story follows Isherwood "Ish" Williams as he first explores the US after a epidemic wipes out a huge chunk of the population. It’s examination of the end of a civizalition followed by the birth of a new one is a idea that sets well along side HBO shows like Deadwood, The Wire and Boardwalk Empire.

I would say that it's a classic of the post apocalyptic genre and well worth checking out. It's also a book that I really need to re-read as some point,

Milton Burton covered the book for a FFB back in 2010 and you can check out that review HERE

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Todd Mason is hosting this week and next weeks FFB's, you can find him HERE