Tag: Media

The Girl in the Spider’s Web

A computer code designed to access the world’s nuclear arsenal forms the basis for another Millennium series story. Typical of Stieg Larsson – but this time David Lagercrantz – the story draws upon interpersonal forces that transcend the crime thriller and imbue it with deeper meaning. While Dan Brown ‘does the’ weird religious symbology, Sieig Larsson prefers the scary domestics. The black leather cladded, bike riding, computer hacker along with other lonesome characters are set within an appropriately alienating industrial landscape to complete the Larsson formula where the external reflects the internal. Continue reading The Girl in the Spider’s Web

First Man

For such an historic and iconic theme as the Apollo 11 moon landing any director is taking a big leap..
Damien Chazelle (director La La Land and Whiplash) must have been aware of the cultural and historical expectations for a feature film on Neil Armstrong.
Before the space race and the cold war of mid 20th century, indeed since the dawn of civilization, these expectations were building. Continue reading First Man