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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

ICE AGE: COLLISON COURSE

July 22, 2016 By Leave a Comment

ICE AGE: COLLISON COURSE

The Ice Age series has always gone more for the heart that the funny bone, though there is no denying that Scrat’s eternal and Sisyphean struggle both to acquire and to retain the acorn he’s been chasing through the four previous films has, in equal parts, both hilarity and a keen commentary on the noble struggle of humankind against a basically unfeeling universe.

Tagged With: animated, asteroid, dinosaur, one-eyed weasel, Pleistocene, prophecy, sequel

DANNY COLLINS Overcomes

March 25, 2015 By Leave a Comment

DANNY COLLINS Overcomes

Narratively, DANNY COLLINS commits more than a few faux pas, but there is such warmth to the melancholy of a life discovered to have been wasted, that the winces they produce are worth enduring. Writer/director Dan Fogelman (CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE) may be too quick the play the melodrama card, but I prefer to focus on… Read More »

Tagged With: Al Pacino, Annette Benning, Bobby Cannavale, comedy-drama, Dan Fogelman, DANNY COLLINS, father-son relationship, film, Jennifer Garner, John Lennon, mid-life crisis, movie, rock star, singer

THE WACKNESS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The thing that everyone will be talking about in THE WACKNESS is the make-out scene between scrawny nymphet Mary-Kate Olsen and the leathery, aging Sir Ben Kingsley. It’s deeply unsettling, and not just because it’s more than mere making out. Not just because of the age difference. Not just because it’s Gandhi and the erstwhile… Read More »

DRILLBIT TAYLOR

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

DRILLBIT TAYLOR is a labored and disjointed effort with identity issues. Part psycho thriller (not ineffective), part examination of the plight of the homeless vet (lunging out of left field), part screwball comedy (stereotypically obvious), and all punctuated with punch lines that can most charitably described as hit and miss.  Emphasis on the latter. The… Read More »

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