Molly’s Game

Aaron Sorkin takes his first seat in the director’s chair with the high stakes poker themed crime thriller Molly’s Game. The main thing Aaron Sorkin has become known for over the years is the way he writes his dialogue. This was made famous by the TV show The West Wing and was at the root…

Hidden Figures

Theodore Melfi’s Hidden Figures tells the vastly under-represented story of the team of African-American women mathematicians who were vital to the early days of the United States space program. Typically biopics about the space program focus on the astronauts involved so right away this story stands out as something different. In some ways it’s baffling…

Criminal

Ariel Vromen’s Criminal is a race against time as the memories of a murdered CIA operate are implanted into a death-row inmate in the hope that he will help complete a critical mission. The underlying story is actually needlessly complicated. There’s this whole narrative around CIA Operative Bill Pope (Ryan Reynolds) tracking down a hacker…

Old and New: Superman

Hello everyone, welcome to my website. The old blog will still be sitting open because of the traffic it’s had since it was created back in March but it will no longer be used. Instead I have this new and shiny website that’s going to serve as my outlet on the internet. Thanks to Dayne…