I’ve been a space supporter and advocate my whole life, yet I was completely unaware of this side of the space program.  Hidden Figures serves as an historical document as much as a mainstream entertainment, and it succeeds tremendously on […]

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Lion shares a premise with Moonlight, in that it presents a young boy in distinct peril in an environment fraught with danger, all alone until he is taken in by people who wish to help him.  Moonlight takes place in […]

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Another film I saw awhile ago bothered me even more than Manchester by the Sea.  It’s Jackie, the post-JFK assassination story of how first lady Jackie Kennedy (Natalie Portman) reacted to her husband’s horrible killing and spent the next week trying to […]

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I’ve held off on reviewing this film for three weeks, hoping to come to a better understanding of it.  Today it received six Academy Award nominations.  I still don’t like it.  Let’s discuss. Kenneth Lonergan’s film is very personal, following […]

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Being a science-fiction fan I’ve been looking forward to Passengers since the first preview I’ve seen.  This is a film that represents the best of science-fiction: a grandly sweeping story with a personal focus, structured on a scale of immensity, against […]

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Anthropomorphism reaches a new plateau in Sing, an animal-character story in which a theater-owning koala bear tries to save his failing business by hosting a voice competition (ala “American Idol” or “The Voice”).  In this day and age such a concept […]

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