Film (2018)
Directed by Ryan Coogler
Written by Ryan Coogler and
Joe Robert Cole
Based on Black Panther
by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
A wonderfully entertaining mashup of tribal costumes, elegant and noble heroes, and superpowerful technologies set against the trials and challenges of the contemporary world.
Movies
Phantom Thread
Film (2017)
Written and Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
With Daniel Day-Lewis
Set in London in the 1950s, a portrait of a charismatic and narcissistic middle-aged dress designer, and the story of his encounter with a young waitress who takes up with him.
Darkest Hour
Film (2017)
Directed by Joe Wright
Screenplay by Anthony McCarten
Music by Dario Marianelli
With Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas
A very good dramatization of Churchill’s transition to power during the early phases of World War II at a time when Britain, and Europe, were on the brink of conquest by the Nazis.
Just One Drop: The Story Behind the Homeopathy Controversy
Film (2017)
Documentary
by Laurel Chiten
Upcoming Boston area screening:
December 14, 2017, 7:30pm
Regent Theatre, Arlington, MA
A dense, interesting and informative film about the history, the benefits of, and the challenges to, the alternative medical practice of homeopathy.
Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing Missouri
Film (2017)
Written and directed by
Martin McDonagh
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
With Frances McDormand,
Sam Rockwell,
Woody Harrelson
A gritty melodrama about a woman who demands local police seriously investigate the murder of her daughter.