Here’s an example of a current sci-fi film which I’m glad to say also counts as actually science fiction. The premise is that the sun is dying, and we have sent up a team in a spaceship with a huge atomic payload in the hopes that exploding the bomb in the sun will reignite [...]
It’s a very well-made, gorgeous-looking, extremely faithful adaptation. There are lots of things it does very well.
Any time you have actresses like Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench together in a movie, expect incredible acting and plenty of sparks, if nothing else. Blanchett is a thirty-something art teacher who becomes involved with one of her fifteen-year-old students. When Dench discovers the affair, she uses her knowledge to gain emotional control over Blanchett, [...]
Before author Graham Greene and director Carol Reed teamed up for the magnificent The Third Man, they did this smaller, but still quite good, suspense film. The “idol” of the title is butler Ralph Richardson, who works for an ambassador’s family in London; the idolizer is the ambassador’s little son. Bates is the boy’s only [...]
James McAvoy plays a young man headed to Bristol University, taking part in the University Challenge trivia contest (which he and his dad had watched on television all during his childhood), and falling in love with the hot blonde girl while failing to notice the girl who really cares about him. Yeah, the story’s routine. [...]
