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MISS YOU ALREADY Catherine Hardwicke

November 13, 2015 By Leave a Comment

MISS YOU ALREADY Catherine Hardwicke

Full of emotion, but never cheap sentimentality, there is a refreshing honesty in the way MISS YOU ALREADY depicts Milly’s battle with cancer, including being called out by being called a cancer bully by Jess. It’s one of the things we talked about on October 9th, 2015, as well as shopping with Jacqueline Bissett, shaving… Read More »

Tagged With: breast cancer, cancer, cancer bully, female bonding, Frances de la Tour, friendship, head shaving, Heathcliff, Mayo Clinic, mother-daughter relationship, nun crush, Oscar Isaac, Seth Maxwell, stage-four cancer, The Thirst Foundation, Vatican, Wuthering Heights, Yorkshire moors

Alex Garland and EX MACHINA

April 16, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Alex Garland and EX MACHINA

One of Alex Garland’s goals in writing the script for his directorial debut, EX MACHINA, was to get the science right, even for subjects such as consciousness and artificial intelligence, which are so poorly understood. He vetted the script with experts, refusing to shoehorn the science to make his story work. He’s still smarting from… Read More »

Tagged With: Adam Rutherford, AI, Alex Garland, Alicia Vikander, Artificial Intelligence, consciousness, Danny Boyle, Domnhall Gleeson, EX MACHINA, gender, gender issues, Gia Milinovich, Imperial College, John Hodges, Murray Shanahan, Oscar Isaac, post-it notes, Screenwriting, SUNSHINE, The Beach, Turing Test

A MOST VIOLENT YEAR for Oscar Isaac

January 14, 2015 By Leave a Comment

A MOST VIOLENT YEAR for Oscar Isaac

Sometimes in an interview there’s a defining line. And in talking to Oscar Isaac about JC Chandor’s A MOST VIOLENT YEAR on December 5, 2014, it came towards the end our conversation, when I had asked what I called the “obligatory Star Wars question”.  As Isaac was describing his method for getting into character as an… Read More »

Tagged With: Catalina Sandino Moreno, cinema, drama, film, Grace Frick, interviews, JC Chandor, Jessica Chastain, Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian, movie, Movies and tagged and t-bone burnett, mystery, Oscar Isaac, Star Wars, thriller, X-wing fighter.

A MOST VIOLENT YEAR Is A Most Excellent Film

January 11, 2015 By Leave a Comment

A MOST VIOLENT YEAR Is A Most Excellent Film

A MOST VIOLENT YEAR begins, appropriately enough, with its protagonist, Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac) running.  Though this is merely jogging through the snowy landscape of 1981 New York, he will spend the rest of the film running more purposefully either literally, figuratively, or both, as he scrambles to overcome fate and the fickleness of human… Read More »

Tagged With: 1981, action, Albert Brooks, cinema, David Oyelowo, ethics, heating oil, Jessical Chastain, Machiavelli, movie, mystery, narrative, Oscar Isaac, thriller

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