In this tautly-constructed, impeccably acted biographical film, Christopher Nolan delves into the life and times of J. Robert Oppenheimer, including the politically charged issues surrounding this historical figure and his prominent achievements. The American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by American historians Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin serves as the […]
The context of the film and the story by director Todd Phillips will change the boundaries of the Batman mythos, offering a heartbreaking and terribly violent march into perhaps darkness. Joker is a dark masterpiece, it is a depressing movie with a captivating lead performance. It is simply hard to put in written words that
Among all the fictional small towns created by Stephen King, Jerusalem’s Lot (Salem’s Lot) strikes the right chord. Other than the well spoken title which is most associated with salem’s lot – it is a small Maine town that for some reason or another becomes prey to a bloodthirsty vampire. There is also some sort
DreamWorks Animation has just produced a superb animated film that they have not done since the 2010 How to Train Your Dragon. The Wild Robot is better than even the most optimistic of you may expect. Feel the bliss of a helpbot coming to terms with her maternal instincts over an abandoned gosling. She, too,
For the sake of this review’s purpose, it would be senseless to try to persuade anyone that parenting (and motherhood in particular) is not hard. Spoiler alert: it is. For all the beauty and joy of seeing a child grow up, at times being a mother is nothing but a thankless job. With little appreciation
Have you ever heard a real life story which is so preposterous that you wonder how on earth such a thing could have taken place? It is easy to appreciate that Ron Howard has a penchant for screen adaptations on the stories of Apollo 13, Inheart of the sea and more recently 13 lives. You’ve
The Last Straw starts off with Andrea and Ervin Litkei’s achy “You Lied to My Heart” which previews the auditory engagement of the audience. Aviation images are quickly shot sequentially, first appearing is a blood mark on the counter then a bloody arm, and lastly an old decommissioned yellow telephone placed Off-Hook. What happened? We
Uglies is a film adaptation of a 2005 book authored by Scott Westerfeld concerning a society where everyone not beautiful is automatically termed as an “ugly” but. It is set in a futuristic stage where at the age of 16 everyone’s society undergoes an aesthetic operation so as to be “pretty”. After her best companion
What would you do if your 39-year-old self came back to give you life-changing advice about the future when you were a teenager? Would you heed such warnings? Or do you go un-chained and risk the somewhat likely possibility of heartache and despair? This is the splendidly imaginative and moving core of the narrative My
Under ideal circumstances, On Swift Horses would have been termed the Brokeback Mountain for the young people of a different generation. The modern day Western earned a jealous critical praise upon its release in 2010 and quickly came to be termed as the immoral version of Ang Lee’s Oscar winning film Brokeback Mountain. The calculated