Bald Move Prestige

Bald Move Prestige is where the best of the best come to shine. In the Prestige podcast, we talk about serious dramas, excellence in filmmaking, and everything in between; on television or on the big screen. Prestige doesn’t cover sci-fi, but if that is your thing, you might be looking for Bald Move Pulp.

Quills (2000)

September 17, 2014 Bald Move Prestige

Special thanks to Karolina Ljungström, who decided to have us take on one of her favorite films, “Quills”.  “Quills” was released in 2000, and was directed by Phillip Kaufman, and starred Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine, and Stephen Moyer.  It is a period piece loosely set around the last years of the Marquis de Sade as he languishes in a French asylum for the insane. The film has Jim and A.Ron pondering the role of art in society, how the life choices and artist makes influences how we feel about art, and how madness and genius are related.

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Run Lola Run (1998)

August 22, 2014 Bald Move Prestige

Hey guys and gals, we have another commissioned podcast, this time from fellow fan Stig Ove Pederson, for the German film, “Lola Rennt”, perhaps better known to english speakers as “Run Lola Run”.  A break out hit for both star Franka Potente (“The Bourne Identity”, “The Shield”, “The Bridge”) and director Tom Tykwer (“Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”, “Cloud Atlas”), the movie has a kinetic style, compelling action, and raises questions about causality, determinism, and free will.

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Waking Life (2001)

August 4, 2014 Bald Move Prestige

Special thanks to Michael Kessler for using Subbable to commission his very own custom Podcast!  But we’re getting ahead of ourselves… Is this a podcast?  Is it a dream?  Will it’s connected consciousness evolve in a more enlightened, compassionate, sharing direction, or will it just want set itself on fire, scream into a megaphone to empty streets, or cut off eyelids and put out cigars on eyeballs?  Do you dream?  Do you remember your dreams?  Can you dream lucidly?  Have you ever been stuck in a dream?  Jim and A.Ron ponder all this and more in a very trippy recap to a very trippy movie/experience, Richard Linklater’s 2001, “Waking Life”.

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The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

June 13, 2014 Bald Move Prestige

Special thanks to listener Ali who commissioned this podcast through our Subbable subscription system!  Jim and A.Ron check out the award winning 1997 film, “The Sweet Hereafter”, which is based on the novel of the same name by author Russell Banks, and is directed by Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan.  It stars Ian Holm (Lord of the Rings, Alien, Fifth Element) and Bruce Greenwood (Thirteen Days, Star Trek, Capote) among others.

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Old Movie Review Round Up

July 27, 2012 Bald Move Prestige

Hey guys, I was digging through our archives and I found a few other movie reviews we did over the past few years.  Some of them were bonus-only for the forums we used to have, so they haven’t previously been available.  I don’t know if there is any interest in them, but I didn’t want to lose them either, so I’m posting them here for posterity.  It’s also an interesting glimpse into the evolution of our podcasts… In roughly chronological order…

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A Tale of Two Heroes

July 26, 2012 Bald Move Prestige

Arising from the ashes of our failed movie review series like the drunken pheonix he is, A.Ron emerges to give a review of the two premier superhero franchises at opposite ends of their respective lifespans.  “The Amazing Spider-Man” attempts to reboot the franchise around new, younger stars and an edgier, more deliberate retelling of the…

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Bald Movies

June 30, 2012 Bald Move Prestige, News

Hey guys, It’s been a fun experiment, but we’ll be discontinuing the Bald Movies effective immediately. The response to the pay for content didn’t really work out (we didn’t quite cover the costs of tickets and soda for the movies, haha). We wanted to close out this final week, but the server being down and…

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Movie Poll – June 29th, 2012

June 22, 2012 Bald Move Prestige

[poll id=”5″] Here are the movies premiering this Friday in our area.  Vote for the one you’d like us to watch and review! Magic Mike Tyler Perry’s Witness Protection Ted People Like Us

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New Membership Details

June 14, 2012 Bald Move Prestige, News

As has been discussed, we’re dipping our toes into the pay-for-play waters.  We’re starting a series of movie reviews, and hopefully other extra content, for a small fee.  The people have spoken, and tomorrow we’re going to see, review, and release a podcast for “Rock of Ages”, the Tom Cruise / Scientology vehicle.  There are…

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Movie Poll – June 15th, 2012

June 12, 2012 Bald Move Prestige

[poll id=”3″] Alright! It’s time to kick off this project proper!  If you’re curious what this is all about, please read this in-depth post on the Bald Movie project from last week. Select a movie from the poll to your right that you’d like to send Jim and I to.  It’s kind of slim pickings…

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