Kathryn Bigelow has been a fave director of mine since Near Dark. And with A House of Dynamite, she continues to prove that not only is she a fantastic director, she should be a bigger deal than she is. Taking a political/techno-thriller concept and putting a human face on it, as this film does, makes…
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Star Trek: Voyager (1995) – Cathexis, and Faces
Captain’s log: stardate 48734.2 Brannon Braga comes up with the teleplay for this story by Braga and Joe Menosky. It first aired on 1 May, 1995. A strange nebula renders Chakotay (Robert Beltran) brain-dead, and also lets something else take over the minds of the crew. And no matter how many times the ship tries…
Schindler’s List (1993) – Steven Spielberg
The next title on the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film as I return to the historical section of the book is Spielberg’s heart-wrenching, anguish filled look at the Holocaust through an adaptation of a true story. Over the course of three hours, this black and white film, with only significant and poignant uses…
October – Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) – Sergei M. Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov
DK Book’s The Movie Book allows me to dig a little further into the works of Sergei M. Eisenstein after my viewing of Battleship Potemkin, by offering up October in his Key Movies category. Shot in a documentary style, the film explores the events that led up to the Bolshevik revolution in October of 1917….
The Mind Reels 