Jul 26, 2023 | Movie & TV Reviews, Reviews
Oppenheimer is a film about the brilliant, enigmatic physicist who led the Manhattan Project that produced the atomic bomb. The relationship of Oppenheimer to his devastating creation is the centerpiece around which director Christopher Nolan weaves a fast-paced...
Mar 4, 2023 | Book Reviews, Movie & TV Reviews, Reviews
The Whale is probably the most formidable entry in the 2023 Oscars, though it has not been nominated for best film. In this film adaptation of Samuel Hunter’s one-act play, the circumstances that lead to a reclusive, massively obese man giving writing lessons online...
Feb 25, 2023 | Movie & TV Reviews, Reviews
Armed with a piece of paper, a government notice informing one of them that he has inherited a parcel of land in a distant province, five young friends from the mean streets of a Colombian city, go off in search of Utopia. In a journey filled with encounters both...
Feb 19, 2023 | Movie & TV Reviews, Reviews
The “message” of this film is that, hey, your world is is still the best of all possible worlds. “Everything Everywhere…” brings the viewer through a series of parallel universes in which Evelyn, played by Michelle Yeoh, and her dysfunctional family are...
Jan 30, 2023 | Movie & TV Reviews, Reviews
Cate Blanchett is at the top of her game in this drama where orchestral politics and sexual intrigue come together to bring a brilliant conductor down from the heights of Mahler’s Symphony No 5 to incognito status providing sci-fi music for a cosplay enacted in Manila...