Christopher Nolan
This isn’t some swords-and-sandals summer movie that comes and goes with the seasons; it is a piece of everlasting art.
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Acclaimed director Christopher Nolan has come so far from Following and Memento in every way possible as a filmmaker. He’s handled adaptations, a revered comic book superhero, and his own original material, not to mention having two riveting WWII-era movies under his belt. Most of his films carry the theme of putting ideas into someone […]
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A lot like his 2010 film “Inception”, Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” deals in multiple layers of time and space. In the not-too-distant future, Earth is close to running out of natural resources; corn is the last remnant of agriculture, and massive dust storms occur on a regular basis. After a gravitational anomaly leads him to a […]
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Please note: this review originally gave Interstellar three stars in 2014. The intervening years have provided a different perspective worth a rating change to 4.5 stars in 2019. ***** “What’s the most resilient parasite? A bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm?” “What Mr. Cobb is trying to say—“ “An idea. Resilient, highly contagious. Once an […]
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If your knowledge of Superman is limited, you won’t be a whole lot more familiar with the guy by the end of “Man of Steel,” which is closer to “War of the Worlds” than a DC Comics adaptation. As we’ve come to expect from director Zack Snyder (“300”, “Watchmen”), the film puts its emphasis on […]
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(This review originally appeared at Reel Film News on July 27, 2012.) Before we start: on behalf of Reel Film News, we would like to offer our sincerest condolences to the victims of the Aurora shooting and their families. I had originally written an overlong piece about the merits of The Dark Knight Rises. There […]
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