Movies

Film (2013)
Directed by Baz Luhrmann
Screenplay by Baz Luhrmann and
Craig Pearce
Based on the novel by
F. Scott Fitzgerald
With Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire
A lot of visual effects in 3D supersede the psychological ones in this lollapalooza production that is more likely to interest CGI fans than literary ones.

Film (2013)
Directed by Shane Black
With Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle,
Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Ben Kingsley
Another installment in the bionic odyssey, carried forward by computer graphic imagery in megadoses and reasonable portions of seasoned and tasteful acting by a roster of capable thespian chefs.

Film (2012)
Directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg
Screenplay by Petter Skavlan
A sweepingly epic treatment of the pioneering journey from Peru to the South Seas by Thor Heyerdahl and crew in 1947.

Film (2012)
Written and Directed
by Jeff Nichols
With Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Sam Shepard
A superbly wrought film about a man on the edge encountered by two fourteen year old boys and the various attempts at love, devotion and self-reliance which surface in the wake of their meeting.

Film (2013)
Written and directed by
Brian Helgeland
With Chadwick Boseman,
Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie
An astoundingly good telling of the story of Jackie Robinson, the first black man to play major league baseball, and Branch Rickey, the manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who signed him.