There is much to admire in TWISTERS, the >not<-sequel to TWISTER. The way the science of tornadoes is woven into the dialogue with a minimum of clunky exposition. The fine performance from Daisy Edgar-Jones as a meteorologist on a mission to stop tornadoes before they can devastate communities. Maura Tierney as her mother who has… Read More »
THE MIDNIGHT SKY
It feels right to have a film about the end of the world be a cold thing, literally and figuratively. And so it is with THE MIDNIGHT SKY, a story set three decades or so in the future is an uncertain blend of personal regret with planetary destruction. Set both in the arctic and in… Read More »
THE REVENANT
With THE REVENANT, Alejandro González Iñárritu has taken the true story of early 19th-century frontier scout Hugh Glass, and admirably manipulated it into a spiritual journey of savage poetry. Glass’s story, rendered cinematically in the 1970’s by Richard Harris in MAN IN THE WILDERNESS, becomes much more here. Iñárritu uses the bare bones of the… Read More »