Sully: Miracle on the Hudson

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 Hologram for the King

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…

Bridge of Spies

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…

EIFF 2015 – Misery Loves Comedy

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…