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OPPENHEIMER

August 7, 2023 By 1 Comment

OPPENHEIMER

Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER demands that we consider the father of the atomic bomb’s life in context, the which he does with stunning clarity considering the paradoxes the film considers. Like the quantum world revealed by the new physics that Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) brought to the United States between the world wars, things can work even… Read More »

Tagged With: Albert Einstein, atomic bomb, based on a true story, communist witch hunt, Gray Board, Hiroshima, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Manhattan Project, new physics, paradox, relativity, senate hearing, Trinity, World War II

A QUIET PLACE 2

May 30, 2021 By Leave a Comment

A QUIET PLACE 2

There is something wonderfully cathartic about spending an hour-and-a-half or so being kept on the edge of one’s seat in a state of suspenseful terror. And thus does John Krasinski’s A QUIET PLACE 2 deliver. As excellent as it would have been as an entertainment if it had enjoyed its original, pre-pandemic release date, the… Read More »

Tagged With: deafness, invaders from space, mother-children, sequel, silence, weaponized sound

ANNA

June 25, 2019 By Leave a Comment

ANNA

There is in Luc Besson’s ANNA fully one-third of a very good movie.  That third is a finely drawn satire, cartoonishly violent in its sublimation of female rage as it addresses female exploitation in the modern world using the milieus of espionage and modeling as the metaphor. The other two-thirds is a plodding retread of… Read More »

Tagged With: assassin, espionage, flashback, Moscow, Paris, Skill Set

THE PARTY

February 20, 2018 By Leave a Comment

THE PARTY

It begins with Kristen Scott-Thomas, in stark black-and-white, answering her door, hair askew, elegance frayed, eyes wild. She points a handgun right at the camera.

Tagged With: infidelity, party, promotion, relationships, revelations, secrets revealed

DUNKIRK

July 22, 2017 By 3 Comments

DUNKIRK

Spinoza once opined that you couldn’t use words to describe God, because by choosing any one or several, you would be eliminating the infinite nature of the deity. That essential inadequacy of words drives much of Christopher Nolan’s stunning film, DUNKIRK. Stunning in many sense of that word. Hence, we don’t learn that Tommy (Fionn… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, bombs, dogfight, Dunkirk, English Channel, military history, soldier, tides, World War II

ANTHROPOID

August 10, 2016 By Leave a Comment

ANTHROPOID

ANTHROPOID is divided into two episodes, one more gut-wrenching than the last as it tells the fact-based story of Czech partisans on what is essentially a suicide mission to assassinate SS General Reinhardt Heydrich, Butcher of Prague, co-planner of the Final Solution, and third in line in the Nazi hierarchy. While the first part is… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, cyanide capsule, Czechoslovakia, Nazi, resistance, torture, World War II

IN THE HEART OF THE SEA

December 9, 2015 By Leave a Comment

IN THE HEART OF THE SEA

No one knows why a whale of unusual coloration destroyed the whaling ship Essex in 1820. Certainly, nothing of the sort had been reported before, though whaling ships had been aggressively hunting the largest animal to ever live on earth ever since the discovery that whale oil could be used to light lamps and heat… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story Moby Dick, Herman Melville, Nantucket, shipwreck, whale oil, whaling

IN TIME

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

IN TIME is a better idea for a movie than it is a movie. The conceit is a clever one, and more, ahem, timely it could not be. In an alternate universe very much like our own, science has cracked the problem of ageing, and everyone is genetically programmed to stop the aging process at… Read More »

28 DAYS LATER

October 21, 2014 By 1 Comment

At one point in 28 DAYS LATER, a character makes the salient point that from a geological viewpoint, the reign of human beings on planet Earth is barely a blip on the radar of existence. Humans might, indeed, be thought of as an anomaly and their disappearance could be construed as a return to normalcy.… Read More »

Tagged With: plague apocalypse

RED EYE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

RED EYE

Most horror films are dedicated to the proposition that females are prey and little else.

Tagged With: airplane, Brian Cox, horror, Jack Scalia, kidnapping, Rachel McAdams, thriller, Wes Craven

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