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GOLDA

August 27, 2023 By Leave a Comment

GOLDA

GOLDA does not take the traditional route in telling the story of the Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. Instead, it focuses on the defining moment of her political career, a moment that made her, in the closing coda to the film, a hero abroad and controversial in her own country. It is a portrait etched… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, geopolitics, Golda Meir, Henry Kissinger, Israel, Middle East, oil, politics, war, Yom Kippur War

ASTEROID CITY

July 29, 2023 By Leave a Comment

ASTEROID CITY

Wes Anderson’s ASTEROID CITY presents us a dream within a dream as it ponders our place in the cosmos by setting its story in three separate realities that bump into each other the way subatomic particles swarm around an atomic nucleus. Is it synchronicity or chance or some other cosmic law of which humanity is… Read More »

Tagged With: competing realities, cremains, desert, military emergency, romance

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE

December 15, 2018 By Leave a Comment

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE

Just when you thought the Spiderman franchise might have finally run its course of endless reboots comes SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE, a film that that reinvigorates both animation and the super-hero origin story. Told in a wry, raucous style, it dares to explore complicated themes of family ties and personal responsibility while slyly poking fun… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, multiverse, origin story

SPOTLIGHT

November 16, 2015 By Leave a Comment

SPOTLIGHT

SPOTLIGHT does more than dissect the passions at work in the investigative news process. As riveting as the specifics are of how The Boston Globe’s special investigative team chased down the sex-abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, it’s the larger question, that of how wide-spread sexual abuse of children by priests could have flourished for… Read More »

Tagged With: abuse scandal, based on a true story, Boston Globe, Catholic Church, investigative journalism, journalism

PAWN SACRIFICE

September 18, 2015 By 1 Comment

PAWN SACRIFICE

Chess has never been more compelling cinematically than in PAWN SACRIFICE. Whether you know nothing about the game, or you are a grand master, the story of Bobby Fischer’s rise to the world championship, and the toll it took on his already fragile psyche, has all the suspense and intrigue of an espionage thriller. That… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky, chess, cold war, government surveillance, Liev Schreiber, narrative, paranoia, PAWN SACRIFICE, politics, Steven Knight, Tobey Maguire

SALT

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

It’s so nice to know that even though the Cold War is over, it’s still possible to make a thriller rife with old-fashioned Cold War paranoia like SALT. It’s a slight but solid bit of filmmaking that fuels the fires of conspiracy theorists while keeping the audience second-guessing about the motives of its eponymous protagonist.… Read More »

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE may be the summer’s biggest surprise. It’s a remake that actually compares favorably to the original. Sure, anyone who’s seen the previous incarnation will know a few of the bigger plot twists going in, but writers Daniel Pyne and Dean Georgaris have seeded this version with enough surprises to keep things fresh.… Read More »

THE OMEN

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Liev Schreiber co-starred in one of the few remakes that worked, THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE. It was that remake, in fact, that restored my faith in the concept of re-visting a classic film. Alas, Mr. Schreiber’s latest adventure in remakes, THE OMEN, is much less successful. There are no new insights, no shift in perspective that breathes… Read More »

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