The Imitation Game, the biographical film about Alan Turing is absolutely mesmerizing. The Imitation Game tells the story about the father of Mechanical and Digital computing that reveals a person who is shy, loving, somewhere between socially-awkward and socially-inept, full-of-heart, heartless, overbearing, demanding, relentless, brilliant, does not suffer fools, and possesses (possibly) the driest and most sarcastic sense Read More…
Movies
The Theory of Everything – Well Almost
Biopic films are a tricky lot. The Theory of Everything – the film about the relationship between Steven and Jane Hawking succeeds because the leads feel to be real-life versions of the principle characters. Directed by James Marsh (AA Man on a Wire, Shadow Dancer) The Theory of Everything is based on the book written by Read More…
Selma: Human Intuition, Positioning, Timing – Now Just as Then
Selma is a movie not a documentary. It is a finely crafted film about human conflict and racial tension. For the most part Selma does not fall victim to presenting its main participants in grossly exaggerated characterized form; instead it reveals them as human beings (with understandable faults and weaknesses) trying to navigate life based on their Read More…