Tripping Through Gateways
Entering the Alternate Worlds of the Movies
I never really had any idea what this movie was about, based on the cover in the video store. s thought it was maybe about time traveling bikers in medieval times...
The Big Sick is a fictionalized account of the beginning of the relationship of comedian Kumail Nanjiani and his wife, writer/producer Emily V. Gordon. Kumail plays himself while Zoe Kazan takes...
Bait is trying to be a terrifying drama set in a below ground grocery store after a massive tsunami hits. The film actually opens up a year earlier in the life...
When you beget the first summer blockbuster, the studio will want to get back to that gold mine. Of course, Steven Spielberg did not return…reports include production conflicts as he was...
In 1975, Steven Spielberg created “The Summer Blockbuster”. Based on the book by Peter Benchley Jaws tells the story of police chief Martin Brody, who must deal with an aggressive great white...
When I heard they were making an “It” movie…I thought this would be a bad idea. It is a decent sized novel. Steven King horror novels have a pretty painful track...
The Circle asks the question: What if Google Were an Evil All Seeing Corporation? (And somebody responds… “IF??”) Emma Watson is Mae, a young woman who dreams of being more than...
Hidden Figures tells a story I suspect few Americans were aware of. The women of NASA in the sixties. Or to be more precise, the black women of NASA. Hidden Figures...
Peter Berg’s Patriots day is one of those films where going in, it may feel a bit like a “Rah Rah America!” exercise in propaganda. And while, to a certain extent,...
In this compelling, but bleak, tale Hugh Jackman is Keller Dover. His Daughter and her friend have disappeared and he is working aggressively to find them. As he feels the police...
