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Guardians of the Galaxy

What we have here, in a nutshell, is Disney re-working a previously untapped Marvel Comics lode into a Star Wars clone. If you’re a stockholder you’re probably already struggling to decide whether you’ll go for the new summer house or just the yacht.

I Origins

In Mike Cahill’s I Origins the eyes have it, hands down—the mixed metaphor notwithstanding. Cahill takes the New Testament poetic adage about the eyes being windows to the soul and spins it out into a dreamy fable of the often adversarial relationship of science and faith. The movie asks, what’s knowable via the scientific method, and what claims can other, older modes of knowing make on our beliefs?



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