Long before Little Boy and Fat Man were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, even before he first glimpsed his creation two weeks earlier at Trinity, J. Robert Oppenheimer was haunted by the bomb. Played by Cillian Murphy and … Continue reading OPPENHEIMER
Burt and Harold have been accused of murder. Not in the legal sense, mind you, with arrests and affidavits, attorneys and judges, but in the old-fashioned way of finger-pointing and yelling louder than everyone else. You see, Burt Berendsen (Christian … Continue reading AMSTERDAM
Love for James Bond is tragic. Sure, his conquests are as numerous as they are fleeting, but consider 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: Bond marries Countess Tracy, only to lose her to a bullet meant for him. The man behind … Continue reading NO TIME TO DIE
Joe Deacon (Denzel Washington) used to be the Los Angeles Police Force’s top detective. Used to be: Five years ago, a momentary decision proved momentous, and Deacon traded in his LAPD shield for a Kern County sheriff’s badge and started … Continue reading THE LITTLE THINGS
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. —Robert Frost Buster (Rami Malek) just looks like he was born tired. Stuck working nights at a last-option hotel … Continue reading BUSTER’S MAL HEART
Short Term 12 derives its name from the place of business where the characters work. Short Term 12 is a halfway house of sorts for juvenile delinquents assigned there while the courts and families figure out what to do with them. … Continue reading SHORT TERM 12
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