Movie Review: The Imitation Game
Graham Moore’s The Imitation Game tells the story of famous mathematician Alan Turing and his work on cracking the Enigma cipher used by the Nazis in World War II.
Turing is an incredibly important figure in the field of computer science; along with Babbage and Lovelace you could very well say he invented it. Of course he invented it to make statements about mathematics (for a fun look at this area of math, see Logicomix) and therefore is also considered a famous mathematician. And finally, he’s known for being forced to take estrogen by the British courts to…
Movie Review: Big Hero 6
Big Hero 6 is a kids’ movie that feels like a cross between The Incredibles and Wreck-It Ralph. It’s also one the most enjoyable movies I’ve seen all year. I’m going to just say right now that unless you’ve all the way grown up and don’t like watching kids’ movies anymore, you will probably enjoy Big Hero 6. Especially if you’ve ever lived in San Francisco.
Movie Review: Interstellar
I’d been looking forward to Interstellar for a while, going as far as to deliberately avoid trailers to really not have any idea what I was getting into.1 It was directed and co-written by Christopher Nolan, who’s responsible for three movies I liked a lot: Inception, The Prestige, and Memento.2 And somehow I didn’t get around to seeing it for a while, and started hearing informal reviews from friends.
Those were mixed: some people loved it, some people were quite disappointed, some people were kind of meh about it. I ended up in the latter camp.