Archive for the ‘Reviews of movies’ Category
Big Hero 6
{4/5} “My brain hates my eyes for seeing this.” Big Hero 6, released in 2014 On the day that Hiro, a young robotics genius, is demonstrating his microbots at the university he wants to attend there’s a fire — his brother Tadashi is killed and his microbots are destroyed. When the single microbot Hiro has […]
Ratatouille
{4.5/5} “Anyone can cook.” Ratatouille, released in 2007 A rat that cooks? It seems like an absurd premise, but the people at Pixar make it work. Remy is different from all the other rats — he wants to eat good food rather than garbage. He makes a deal with a human, Linguini, who’s working in […]
Elf
{4.5/5} “We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup.” Elf, released in 2003 Buddy is shocked to discover that he’s not really an elf — he’s a human. He decides to travel all the way from the North Pole to visit his father, in New […]
Robin Hood
{4.5/5} “What has eighteen legs and isn’t going anywhere?” Robin Hood, released in 2010 Robin is an archer in Richard the Lionheart’s army. At one last battle with the French, Richard is killed. Robin and his friends head for home, England, not really knowing what they will do. When Robin returns a sword to a […]
Maleficent
{4.5/5} “This curse will last till the end of time! No power on Earth can change it!” Maleficent, released in 2014 This is a retelling of the “Sleeping Beauty” story. Maleficent is a fairy and Stefan is a human — although they come from different worlds, they fall in love. But then Stefan betrays her […]
The Zero Theorem
{4/5} “Putting the ‘you’ back in utopia.” The Zero Theorem, released in 2013 Qohen’s work is crunching entities — he’s now working on the zero theorem, which Management specifically asked him to work on. But he was fairly crazy before — for example, he talks about himself in the plural — and working on this […]
Interstellar
{4.5/5} “Absolute honesty isn’t always the most diplomatic nor the safest form of communication with emotional beings.” Interstellar, released in 2014 Cooper joins a team that’s taking a spacecraft through a wormhole to find a new home for humanity on the other side. He promises his daughter Murph that he will return, but years pass […]
Love is All You Need
{4.5/5} “I really don’t understand why anybody will work for you. When… when you’re so awful and stupid and not nice.” Love is All You Need, released in 2012 Ida is a hairdresser who’s had cancer but is free of it at the moment — she finds out her husband is having an affair. Philip […]
A Birder’s Guide to Everything
{4/5} A Birder’s Guide to Everything, released in 2013 David, a member of a birding club at school, thought he saw a duck that’s supposed to be extinct. So he and his friends head out to try to find it again. Meanwhile his dad is getting married, a year and a half after his mom […]
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
{4/5} “‘You weren’t kidding. You are in the CIA.’ ‘Somebody has to be.’” Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, released in 2014 Jack Ryan is a financial analyst who secretly works for the CIA. When he discovers a Russian plot to devastate the US economy he flies to Moscow to do whatever he can to stop it. […]