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ZERO DARK THIRTY

August 5, 2015 By Leave a Comment

ZERO DARK THIRTY

ZERO DARK THIRTY starts, tellingly, with a dark screen and audio clips from 9/11. Air traffic control chatter, 911 calls, and the anguished, astonished voices of people who have no frame of reference for what is happening to and around them. In doing so, the film compels the viewer to relive that day not with… Read More »

Tagged With: 9/11, Al Qaeda, based on a true story, CIA, covert operations, Jessica Chastain, Kathryn Bigelow, narrative, Navy SEALS, Osama Bin Ladin

A Ho-Hum TERMINATOR GENISYS

July 4, 2015 By Leave a Comment

A  Ho-Hum TERMINATOR GENISYS

Inflated and grandiose, TERMINATOR GENISYS rethinks the Terminator mythos by coming up the novel notion that changing the past might have more than the intended repercussions. Hence, when the John Conner (Jason Clarke, near left) in this timeline sends Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney, far left) back to 1984 Los Angeles to save John’s mother, Sarah (Emilia Clarke),… Read More »

Tagged With: apocalypse, franchise reboot, John Conner, Kyle Reese, Los Angeles, narrative, robot, San Francisco, Sarah Conner, Sci-fi, Skynet, T-1000, T-800, Terminator, time travel

THE BETTER ANGELS

November 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE BETTER ANGELS

No plaster saint, nor marble effigy of Abraham Lincoln is to be found in THE BETTER ANGELS. Based on the recollections of Lincoln’s surviving family, as spoken by his cousin about his boyhood in Indiana, this is a Lincoln before the legends had taken root, the Lincoln of great promise whose intellectual curiosity and love… Read More »

Tagged With: A.J. Edwards. Terrence Malick, Abraham Lincoln, American history, black and white cinematography, cinema, drama, film, history, Jason Clark, movies

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