Allied

Robert Zemeckis brings us Allied; part World War II espionage thriller and part romance when a couple on a deep cover mission fall in love and decide to start a family once they accomplish their task. There’s something very old fashioned about this film and I mean this in a good way. Brad Pitt’s Max…

Self/Less

Tarsem Singh’s Self/Less explores the idea of being able to switch bodies at the point of death and live your life all over again while questioning what the human cost of that might be. This film has a solid high concept science fiction idea that is rife for exploring and starts out pretty well. It…

On the Silver Screen – The Imitation Game

Benedict Cumberbatch portrays historical figure Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, the story of how the famous mathematician solved the German Enigma code during the second world war and assured the Allied victory. Alan Turing’s contributions to history are nothing short of incredible, both as a codebreaker and as a scientist. His ideas about computers…