His Very Own Girl is a historical romance set in England during WWII. The protagonists are an American medic (Joe) and an English pilot (Lulu). Lulu flies for the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATS), ferrying planes from one airstrip to another. I could not stop picturing Lulu as Peggy Carter, but with a pilot’s license, which means of course that I adored her. Joe is a less sympathetic hero in the sense that he is quite … Continue reading His Very Own Girl by Carrie Lofty →
This is a movie that starts tense, stays tense, and ends… still pretty tense. It’s also a masterclass in film structure, and I would put it up there with Hell or High Water as one of the best constructed movies of the modern age. It also had one of the most effective teaser trailers I’ve ever seen. Dunkirk tells the story of the Miracle at Dunkirk, a week at the end of May and beginning of … Continue reading Movie Review: Dunkirk →
Watching The Imitation Game was kind of a weird experience. It was a movie I really enjoyed, but it also left me feeling really depressed. The Alan Turing biopic is, at its heart, a movie about identity and the destructive nature of secrets. Benedict Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing, a genius mathematician and the father of theoretical computer science. Turing was a super smart dude, and like most movies, The Imitation Game struggles to visually represent genius. That’s … Continue reading Movie Review: The Imitation Game →
