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“The Internet’s Own Boy”: The Story of Aaron Swartz

Written by diana on April 16, 2018. Posted in movie reviews. 1 Comment on “The Internet’s Own Boy”: The Story of Aaron Swartz

Chronicling the life and tragic death of computer wunderkind Aaron Swartz (1986-2013), “The Internet’s Own Boy” is a documentary that pulls the viewer into a life too brief and incredibly brilliant as we witness a young boy’s intellectual development as well as his emotionally opaque inner life. The testimony of...

Seeing Allred–A Hero Before #MeToo

Written by diana on March 26, 2018. Posted in movie reviews. 3 Comments on Seeing Allred–A Hero Before #MeToo

Seeing Allred, which premiered at Sundance in January (and now available on Netflix,) gives us a new portrait of the revolutionary Gloria Allred, the feminist lawyer who singlehandedly took on legal cases including the Equal Rights Amendment (which failed to pass in Congress), and Roe vs. Wade. The list of men Gloria Allred has taken to...

The Shape of Water–E.T. Meets Aqua Man

Written by diana on March 19, 2018. Posted in movie reviews. 3 Comments on The Shape of Water–E.T. Meets Aqua Man

The Shape of Water (2018 Academy Award for Best Picture) is written and directed by the Mexican wunderkind, Guillermo del Toro (of “Pan’s Labyrinth”). Part-fantasy, part-political commentary, and part-love story, “The Shape of Water” is difficult to categorize. The Shape of Water, an adult fairy tale of...

Memento–Remembrance of Things Past

Written by diana on March 3, 2018. Posted in movie reviews. 3 Comments on Memento–Remembrance of Things Past

Wesley Saunders, Guest Blogger [Professional basketball player for Kataja Basket of Finland, Harvard ’15. Stop by his Instagram: @saunders.wesley and watch his Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8mC0KC_BZU&t=10s] Memento (2000), a psychological thriller, is one of director Christopher Nolan’s earliest films, incorporating a...

Black Sea (2014)–The Darkness Beneath the Surface

Written by diana on February 27, 2018. Posted in movie reviews.

The British-American disaster thriller Black Sea stars Jude Law as a veteran (Robinson) deep-sea salvage captain, recently unemployed and divorced with a young son. While dejected and wondering what his future holds, Robinson has drinks with a fellow co-worker, Kurston, in similar circumstances. Soon the two friends assemble a misfit...

Phantom Thread: Moving Through Love, Death and Genius

Written by diana on February 19, 2018. Posted in movie reviews. 2 Comments on Phantom Thread: Moving Through Love, Death and Genius

[Bill Clark, Guest Blogger] In an early scene of writer / director Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy-Award nominated Phantom Thread, Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) gazes across the dinner table at Alma (Vicky Krieps) who he hopes will be his next easy conquest. After all, he’s the renowned haute couture dressmaker in 1950s London who...