Comedy, Movies

Pitch Perfect 2

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I did not even remember that I had seen the first film in this series. Now I know why. Just as the first installment of this fun film you forgot the details of the plot even while you are watching the film. But the singing is so beautiful and the humor is splendid. Watching the [Read More]
Drama, Movies

Leviathan

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Anyone reading world news for the past 12 months will be taken aback by Vladimir Putin’s blatant lies regarding Russia’s involvement in the war in Ukraine. Now comes a film that is extraordinarily powerful in capturing contemporary Russian society. This is only the 4th film of the writer and director Andrey Zvyagintsev. Zvyagintsev manages to [Read More]
Documentary, Drama, Movies

The Imitation Game

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This is the 2nd film about a famous British scientists this year. Stephen Hawkin is probably better known to the public than Alan Touring. But Touring probably has changed our lives more than Hawkins. Touring was one of the pioneers of theoretical computing and computing is now ubiquitous. The film is foremost a history lesson [Read More]
Drama, Europe, Movies, Travel

The Great Beauty

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If you want to see a film that is a genuine piece of art, you could not go wrong with The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza). Many European attempts to make an “artistic” rather than “commercial” film fail miserably. Breaking the tradition, experimentation for the sake of experimenting often becomes the center of these efforts [Read More]
Drama, Movies

Wilde

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If I ever were to teach at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, I now have an idea for my very first seminar. I would have students compare the script for Wild and for The Theory of Everything. Wild has what The Theory of Everything lacks so profoundly: Insightfulness, depth, and the ability [Read More]
Drama, Movies

The Theory of Everything

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The life story of Steven Hawkings is amazing. In his early twenties he becomes afflicted by a rare disease that causes one to gradually lose control over all muscles. The doctors only give him two years to live. He is still with us today and he has made big contributions to cosmology. He continued [Read More]
Documentary, Movies

Citizenfour

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Let me make a very strong statement: As a citizen in a democratic country you have the civic duty to see Citizenfour. We need to have a extensive debate how far we want to allow governments collect data on everything we do in the name of helping to prevent some terrorist attack. There is [Read More]