This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
In 2007, writer Aaron Sorkin’s The Farnsworth Invention opened on Broadway. The play was a classic 20th century American tale of ambition, innovation and fortitude centered on arguably the most influential invention of the 20th century, television. [...]

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Never Let Me Go, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, has more in common with The Matrix, Children of Men and Logan’s Run than the author’s other celebrated adaptation, The Remains of the Day, though you’d never know it if you watched the film with the volume turned down. Never Let Me Go is [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Though Terry Gilliam may call himself a film director, he has much more in common with the ringmaster under a circus big top. A Gilliam film is a psychedelic experience (think Fellini on hallucinogens), a surreal carnival [...]

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