A biopic of Professor Stephen Hawking is a goldmine for Hollywood. He is arguably the most influential living physicist, akin to Albert Einstein. he has a crippling disease and was only given a few years to live, but recently celebrated his 73rd birthday. The Theory of Everything is based on the memoirs Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen of his first wife Jane and … [Read more...]
Review: Project Nim (2011)
Released in the same week as Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes in 2011, Project Nim is the story of an experiment started in 1973 to see if raising a chimp in a human family and teaching it signing would result in it acquiring language skills. Headed up by Herbert S Terrace at Columbia University, 'Nim Chimpsky' (a play on Noam Chomsky, the famous human language theorist) was … [Read more...]
Review: Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980 (2009)
Adaptations of popular television shows into films are a reasonably rare occurrence these days, but even rarer are television films that later get a theatrical release. This was however the case for the Red Riding trilogy produced by Channel 4 that was so acclaimed that all three films were released in theatres in the US in 2010. Based on the four novels by David Peace, the Red … [Read more...]