Passengers

A man on a trip to a new planet wakes up decades too early and has to contemplate life alone in the black silence of space in Morten Tyldum’s Passengers. On the surface, this seems like a fairly workable concept. People dealing with isolation is nothing new in films and can be done really well…

Nocturnal Animals

Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals explores the loneliness of a gallery owner feeling insecure about her life choices when she reads her ex-husband’s manuscript. Susan (Amy Adams) is immediately establlished as a successful career woman who owns an art gallery and is married to someone equally successful (Armie Hammer) so she is a woman that many…

On the Silver Screen – Kill The Messenger

Michael Cuesta’s Kill the Messenger tells the story of journalist Gary Webb (Jeremy Renner) as he works to expose the involvement of the CIA in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing Cocaine into California. The real life events of this film and the political machinations surrounding them are very complex but this film smartly…