Tag: Interstellar

• Ghost Papas: Fatherhood in ‘The Patriot’ and ‘Interstellar’

  I recently rewatched The Patriot for the first time in a long while. I was big into this movie as a lad, so rewatching it as a thirtysomething dad was something of an experiment to see how my adolescent tastes hold up. There’s good (John Williams’ score, Mel Gibson as likeable movie star) and bad…

  Aug 28, 2020

  # Christopher Nolan, family, fatherhood, film, history, Interstellar, IPC, Mel Gibson, movies, parenting, review, Roger Ebert, synchronicity, The Patriot

• Favorite Films of 2014

  Because synchronicity has been on my mind recently, I wondered while considering my favorite films of 2014 if any of them were thematically aligned, explicitly or otherwise. Turns out they are. The ten-ish films that lodged themselves into my brain this year naturally arranged themselves into pairs or groups—some odd ones, to be sure, but nevertheless interesting. I…

  Jan 11, 2015

  # best of, Boyhood, Calvary, film, Ida, Interstellar, Life Itself, lists, Locke, movies, Noah, review, Snowpiercer, The LEGO Movie, They Came Together, Whiplash

• Einterstellar

  My new definition of cosmic irony: to be in the midst of Walter Isaacson’s Einstein: His Life and Universe as I went to see Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, a marvel of a film that directly references Einstein and his theory of relativity. I had a chuckle during the film when that moment arrived, not because I…

  Nov 25, 2014

  # Albert Einstein, books, Christopher Nolan, film, Interstellar, movies, outer space, science, synchronicity