The Review at the End of the Universe
Clint Eastwood tells the true life tale of the 2009 passenger airliner miracle water landing that saved all aboard in Sully: Miracle on the Hudson. This is a hard story to put to film because it happened so recently so many people watching will already know the outcome. Building up to the event that might…
A failed businessman takes a job with an IT firm working in Saudi Arabia so that he can get back on track after some unpleasantness in his personal life. Tom Tykwer’s A Hologram for the King is based on the Dave Eggers novel of the same name. The title “A Hologram for the King” refers to…
Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies is a tale of hope and integrity amid a backdrop of Cold War era paranoia. It all begins when a man named Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) is arrested under suspicion of being a Soviet spy and awaits trial to determine the extent of his guilt. In an attempt to prove…
Kevin Pollak’s documentary Misery Loves Comedy has him ask a large number of people associated with comedy what they think makes them funny. Comedy is a difficult beast at the best of times. We all know what we find funny and can rattle off examples of things we consider to be hilarious but the question of…
