Movie Review: Gravity
Managed to catch Gravity before it leaves theaters. The premise: Murphy’s Law in space, set in the present day.1 Our protagonist, Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock), is made more of an everyman (everywoman?) by not wanting to be there in the first place, not perfectly comfortable with weightlessness and perfect inertia and vast empty depths of stars and nothing. Her foil is Lt. Matt Kowalski (George Clooney), a veteran astronaut who explicitly enjoys the solitude and silence of space.
Why am I finding it difficult to write a review here? Because there’s not much to say about the…
Movie Review: Frozen
Two conflicting thoughts: “Frozen is a kids’ story” and “Nobody told me Disney was writing a musical!”
Frozen is a fairy tale with really good songs. It’s a mix of the classic Disney fairy tale animations with the company’s recent independent heroines (cf. Tangled), directed by Jennifer Lee (who was a writer for Wreck-It Ralph1) and produced by John Lasseter (of Pixar fame). It’s supposedly loosely based on Hans Christian Anderson’s The Snow Queen, but reading through the synopsis of that shows that what’s left is more “cultural references” than actual basis for the film. Which is fine.
"Everything's Alright"
“Everything’s Alright” is the theme song for a bittersweet story game called To the Moon. Even before I could play the game, the song found its way into my heart with Laura Shigihara’s touching vocals.