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MOTHER!

September 17, 2017 By Leave a Comment

MOTHER!

From his debut feature, PI, Darren Aronofsky’s work has never strayed far from the metaphysical. There was the overt Kabbalah that infused NOAH, and even REQUIEM FOR A DREAM was as much about the psychic destruction of souls as it was about any physical degradation of the protagonists. And so it is with MOTHER!, an… Read More »

Tagged With: allegory biblical, conflagration, God, goddess, home repair, refurbishing

MORGAN

August 30, 2016 By Leave a Comment

MORGAN

MORGAN is a high-minded film that wants us all to ponder what it means to be human.  Alas, the most ponder-worthy thing in this film, which once again shows the result of humankind playing God, is wondering how Kate Mara managed to do all that running through the piney woods in those very high heels. … Read More »

Tagged With: AI, eye gouging, hybrid human, medical experiment, risk-assessment consultant, secret experiment

THE MARTIAN

October 2, 2015 By 3 Comments

THE MARTIAN

THE MARTIAN asks some tough metaphysical questions as it answers some thorny scientific problems with nifty solutions. What’s worth living for? What’s worth dying for? And why should giving up never be an option? The premise is daunting. Mark Watney (Matt Damon), ace botanist and member of the Ares 3 exploratory expedition to Mars in… Read More »

Tagged With: 3D, book to screen, botany, interplanetary exploration, NASA, near future, Physics, potato plants, self-surgery, supercomputer, windstorm

FANTASTIC FOUR, Alas Not So Much

August 7, 2015 By Leave a Comment

FANTASTIC FOUR, Alas Not So Much

So the story goes, when the first atomic bomb was being tested out there in the New Mexico desert, no one was sure that that chain reaction that started with detonation would end with the explosion. There was, in other words, a chance that the reaction would continue until our planet was a burned out… Read More »

Tagged With: cgi, FANTASTIC FOUR, Marvel Comics, Miles Teller, military-industrial complex, narrative, origin story, parallel dimensions, super hero, teleportation

127 HOURS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Danny Boyle doesn’’t make it easy for himself. After exploring the teeming slums of India with SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, he’’s turned in a different direction with 127 HOURS. In it, James Franco, as intrepid hiker Aron Ralston, spends most of the film trapped in a sliver of a crevice carved very deep into one of the… Read More »

Tagged With: 127 HOURS, accident, Aron Ralston, based on a true story, Between A Rock and A Hard Place, book to screen, cinema, Danny Boyle, drama, film, hiking, James Franco, movie, narrative, slot canyon

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