Gravity (2013) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2

I’ve been mourning the dearth of quality science-fiction for a long time.  Somewhere along the line fantasy became more popular than science, special effects began to overwhelm narrative and personal melodrama became standard storytelling currency. I yearn for the days […]

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The Family (2013) ☆ ☆

We might as well get accustomed to the notion that Robert De Niro’s career has entered a nostalgic phase.  The Family casts De Niro as a former gangster clearly modeled on his Goodfellas persona; in fact, the film literally references that earlier […]

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