The Imitation Game (2014).
I’m giving a 5-star recommendation to this fascinating film about code-breaking in WWII and the challenges of secrecy. Click the movie’s title to read my entire review.
January 2015 Journal
Inside: Unbroken, Foxcatcher, The Imitation Game, Annie, Big Eyes, Wild, Into the Woods, The Homesman, The Babadook, and much more.
Benediction (2021)
The story of English War Poet Siegfried Sassoon from WW 1 through his many affairs with gay men to his marriage with Hester to his conversion to the Catholic Church.
Ex Machina (2015)
In this reworking of the Frankenstein theme a computer genius invites an employee to spend a week to apply the Turing Test to his AI equipped female robot.
Reactions to This Year’s Oscars Winners
Like most viewers I was both happy and disappointed with the winners at the 86th Academy Award ceremony. Let’s begin with the “happy” choices. My biggest thrill was the choice of and performance of the “Best Song,” “Glory.” As I wrote in my review of Selma,” I don’t know how the film will fare …
Film Capsules January 2015
Readers who send out newsletters or produce church bulletins are welcome to reprint any or all of these mini-reviews, the one stipulation being that at the end they include © 2914 Edward McNulty, Visual Parables. Click onto a title to read a much longer review. Selma Rated PG-13. Amos 5:21-24. None of the other fine …
The Gospel According to Edith Bunker
This article appeared in the CHRISTIAN CENTURY on March 27, 1974. I recently wrote about Henry Fonda quoting from it for “The Best of All in the Family,” which celebrated the 100th episode of the series. This is included in the DVD set of the Fifth Season of All in the Family, on disk 2, …
her (2013)
A lonely man falls in love with his computer operating system in this romantic comedy set in the near future.