Things I Learned From Movie X: Prometheus

"How do I get out of this movie and back to Earth?"

I've been fairly vocal about how much I dislike Prometheus in the past, but try as I might to walk away, I still have much more to say on the matter, as well as on Ridley Scott's career in general. Fortunately, Things I Learned From Movie X remains the perfect venue for me to vent, and it's especially suited to a film like Prometheus, which I like so very much in some ways and dislike so very much in others.

Film Review: Shame (2011)

Shame, the second film by artist-turned-director Steve McQueen, is a technically dazzling examination of Brandon (Michael Fassbender), a sex addict whose carefully cultivated routine of Internet pornography and meaningless one-night stands is thrown into disarray when his younger sister (Carey Mulligan) comes to stay with him. It's important to mention Shame's technical prowess up front since its meticulously planned tracking shots, languid pacing and evocation of New York at night, great though they are, only serve to mask the fact that the film they are in service of is shallow, banal and dull.