What makes this film especially timely is the way school funding is being cut. There are programs related to science education that are often in the crosshairs of governmental budget cutters. This film serves as a cheerleader for STEM education.
?Written and directed by Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone, Dheepan),The Sisters Brotherstells the story of Charlie and Eli Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly), two contract killers in mid-19thCentury America. When Charlie and Eli are teamed with detective John Morris (Jake Gyllenhaal) to find and kill the humble prospector Hermann Warm (Riz Ahmed). However,…
Screwball is the unbelievably true story of how a petty dispute between two petty criminals brought down the world?s highest-paid baseball player. Director Billy Corben, the outstanding documentarian of Cocaine Cowboys and six other features, illuminates the shady worlds of South Florida?s steroid scene and Major League Baseball?s complicated relationship with performance-enhancing drugs. The film…
Set twenty thousand years ago in Ice Age Europe, Alpha is a story of struggle and survival, of fear and courage, but it also is a story of an unlikely bond between natural enemies that brought a new way for both of them to advance. This is the very first boy-and-his-dog story. The world of…
Ocean’s 8?steals a play from the Star Wars playbook, setting up a Sandra Bullock-driven standalone story in the world of Danny Ocean (George Clooney) of?Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve,?and?Thirteen. As Debbie Ocean, Bullock’s character sets out to rob the Met Gala in New York City, with a band of enterprising female criminals (and criminals-to-be). While Danny Ocean…
TAG?is inspired by a real story that has stretched nearly thirty years. It’s a story about friendship, one really long game of tag, and the people who would pursue each other, no matter what. You are either going to watch?TAG?and see “a world where grown men take the whole month of May to play a…
Here’s a necessary disclaimer: I was not a fan of?Mister Roger’s Neighborhood. I have no emotional childhood connection to the show or to the man Fred Rogers, maybe because I don’t like cardigans or puppets. But?Won’t You Be My Neighbor?is fantastic. “The only thing that really changes the world is when someone gets the idea…
?He painted the soul, not just the image.? The PBS series American Masters is airing an episode focusing on the painter Andrew Wyeth. Wyeth was one of the 20th century?s most famous magical-realist painters. He had both popular and critical success. But the popular success also led to a time of critical rejection as abstract…
In the historical drama Operation Finale, a crack team of Mossad agents infiltrates Argentina after hearing news Adolph Eichmann, one of Adolph Hitler?s inner circle, continues to remain at large. Led by Peter Malkin (Oscar Isaac), the team takes Eichmann (Ben Kingsley) hostage, interrogates him, and attempts to extradite him back to Israel. But while…
Where this becomes more than just a gimmick is how the film serves to reflect our culture and the way we live so much of our lives?whether actively or passively?online.
