Many moments in The Light Between Oceans (2016, out now for home viewing) accentuate isolated and needy individuals who don’t really want to be alone. Tom and Isabel The film begins by lingering on Tom’s isolation on the Australian coast. He is single, alone and surrounded by mountain and land on one side and ocean…

Aliens on earth, giant alien bugs possessing farmers, but does the public really need to know? The original Men in Black (1997) twenty years ago inventively executes an idea that has been around for a long time. There are aliens out there that the public don’t know about. Men in Black added that they wouldn’t…

Compromise is not an easy place to live. One day, what one really feels will come to the fore. That’s the impetus of the latest Star Wars film, Rogue One. What’s Star Wars? (As if we didn’t know, but to recap) Star Wars is basically a film about the “good guys” and the “bad guys”…

In Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Gotham City businessman Bruce Wayne, who is also crime fighter Batman, says superhero Superman should be brought down as he left havoc in his wake fighting villains. Hey, Batman, what about you? Fighting injustice is what I do, I hear Batman say. Superman is supposed to save lives. Hypocrite. Then,…

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