Storks: Sticking to the Plan
Although Storks suffers from believability in places, it?s laugh-out-loud funny and can be an effective way to discuss family and finding one?s place in the world with kids.
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Sully: In the Moment
On January 15, 2009, U.S. Airways pilot?Chesley”Sully” Sullenberger and his co-pilot, Jeff Skiles, ?were flying a commercial airliner from LaGuardia for a standard run, the same way Sullenberger had flown for forty years. When his Airbus A320 struck a herd of?geese that destroyed?the engines, Sullenberger’s quick thinking landed the plane safely in the Hudson River….
Mars Ep. 6 – The Cost
Manned space exploration has been stuck in orbit around our own planet for nearly fifty years. Is it time to change all that?
Neruda – Poet on the Run
Pablo Larra?n’s latest Chilean focused film is Neruda about the famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and how the Cold War played out in Chile.
Rogue One, A Star Wars Story: One With The Force
?Rebellions are built on HOPE.? Words don?t ring truer than what Jyn Erso said. (Don?t worry it?s not a spoiler, it was in the trailers.) If you are familiar with Star Wars and the first film, A New Hope, you understand that for many of us, it all started there. When I think of Star…
Rogue One, a Star Wars Story: What Would You Die For? (A Spoiler-Free Review)
Rogue One?is conspicuously “a Star Wars story,” not cut from the same mold as?The Force Awakens. But from this lifetime Star Wars fan, that may in fact make it?better?than (some of) its predecessors. In fact, I found myself emotionally more connected to the story of Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) and her team of misfit castoffs…
Collateral Beauty – Arguing with the Cosmos
Besides working well on the level of plot and character, this is a film that also provides some philosophical depth.
The Best of Christmas Spirit
Do you ever feel like you need to have something jumpstart your Christmas spirit? While I believe that an act of generosity seems to be the most consistent means of unlocking Christmas in the heart of the Grinchiest Grinch, I’ll admit that there are certain films – or shows – that get me in the…
good, bad, ugly: nostalgia edition
some say we live in an age of nostalgia round up the recent remakes, the reboots, the revivals, the side stories, the things even just intentionally reminiscent of?other, older, more established things, and prepare to be flooded in the fond feels, deluged in the delights of yesterday, of yesteryear remember?Star Wars? you don’t have to….
Suicide Squad: Evil Has Many Faces
In David Ayers’ breakthrough from?gritty thrillers (Fury, End of Watch, Training Day),?Suicide Squad proves to be a multi-faceted adventure that drags us into the darker end of the DC Comics Universe. Here, in the spirit of John Ostrander’s comic book creation, Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) uses the fear resulting from the arrival of Superman to…