The Place Beyond the Pines is an ambitious epic about choices and the consequences of those choices, and about the relationship between fathers and sons along with how the father’s decisions impact their sons. The film’s first act opens with Luke Glanton (Ryan Gosling) a famous motorcycle rider for a traveling state carnival. The man […]
Archives for April 2013
To The Wonder
Neil (Ben Affleck) is an American traveling in Europe who meets and falls in love with Marina (Olga Kurylenko), an Ukrainian divorcée who is raising her 10-year-old daughter Tatiana in Paris. The lovers travel to Mont St. Michel, the island abbey off the coast of Normandy, basking in the wonder of their newfound romance. Neil […]
Roger Ebert: The Most Popular and Beloved Film Critic of All Time
On this day, April 4, 2013, we lost someone who was probably the best film critic ever: Roger Ebert. He died early today at the age of 70 after a prolonged battle with cancer. Chicago Tribune critic Michael Phillip today called Ebert “The the most popular and beloved film critic of all time.” “I’ll see […]
Oblivion
In Oblivion, one of the few remaining drone repairmen is assigned to Earth, its surface devastated after decades of war with the alien scavengers, discovers a crashed spacecraft with contents that bring into question everything he believed about the war, and may even put the fate of mankind in his hands. Fast forward 60 years […]