The Theory of Everything (2014)
‘Theory of Everything’ shows how powerful and noble the human spirit can be, despite disabilities. To read my entire review, click on the movie title.
December 2014 Journal
Inside: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1,The Theory of Everything, Rosewater, Birdman, Whiplash, Low Down, Interstellar, Big Hero 6, Before I Go to Sleep, T. Hobbit: The Battle of the five Armies, Diplomacy, Citizenfour, Glen Campbell … I’ll Be Me, and more.
The Aeronauts (2019)
In this account of the 1862 balloon flight that set a world altitude record for many decades, one of the areonauts is depicted as a woman.
The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)
The little known story of The Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan is told, from his study with Cambridge’s Prof. Hardy during WW 1 to his early death back in India in 1920.
Reactions to This Year’s Oscars Winners
Like most viewers I was both happy and disappointed with the winners at the 86th Academy Award ceremony. Let’s begin with the “happy” choices. My biggest thrill was the choice of and performance of the “Best Song,” “Glory.” As I wrote in my review of Selma,” I don’t know how the film will fare …
Film Capsules December 2014
Click onto a title to read a much longer review. Diplomacy Not Rated. Genesis 22:9-12. The filmmakers effectively open up a stage play that condenses into one night a series of confrontations between two strong-willed men in Paris during August of 1944. The men are General Dietrich von Choltitz, the recently arrived Nazi governor of …
Vengeance (2022)
A smug New Yorker travels to west Texas to attend the funeral of a girl he barely knew & finds all his stereotypes challenged by her family.
Change in the Air (2018)
Terrific movie set in a small town. Click the headline to read my entire review.
Mississippi Freedom Summer Project 1964: Part 4
At he end of Roger’s and my first day in Shaw I describe our Shaw “home” and part of our second day there. Monday, Aug. 10 I must describe “home.” It is a lovely old white – or once was–a wooden structure. The lumber must have been milled in Reconstruction days judging by the appearance of it. The front porch threatens …
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Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Rated R. Our ratings: V -7; L -7; S/N -2. Running time: 2 hour 37 min Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands at a distance; for truth stumbles in the public square, and uprightness cannot enter. Isaiah 59:14 He said, ‘In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had …