Drama
Citizen Kane
How many times has this film been called the “Greatest movie of all time?” It has topped film critic’s list for generations. If there really is such a thing as one single film that is somehow superior to all other films (which this reviewer believes is tantamount to claiming “my grandma’s cherry pie is better than everyone else’s”) then “Citizen Kane” should most definitely be a contender.
Voyagers
In 1954, William Golding wrote the perennial High School classic “Lord of the Flies” about a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous and often lethal attempt to develop their own society. Voyager writer and director, Neil Burger, took that idea and put it in outer space. The time is 2063. The Earth is in bad shape and a suitable planet to colonize has been found but it will take an 86-year long journey to reach it. So, a couple of dozen genetically generated children are created and raised within the confines of a contained environment deprived of a normal human experience to make the journey without feeling the loss of Earth. Along the way, they will reproduce, and raise up a few generations who will reach the planet and begin a new human colony.
The Hunger Games
It is hard to imagine that we are coming up on the ten-year anniversary of the first installment of the Hunger Games trilogy. Ten years? Really? Look back at the film, how it has aged? Is it still relevant today?