Science in Film: Lucy and Brain Power
The movie Lucy, from France, released July 25, 2014, asks big questions and gives few answers. Questions like: Life has been aroun…
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Science in Film: Climate Change and Prison
What do climate change and prison have in common? It's hard to imagine at first. That is, until watching the true documentary movi…
SCIENCE IN FILM: NOAH AND THE FLOOD
Whether it is historical fact or myth, the epic tale of Noah and the Ark remains an enduring tale of destruction, survival, and re…
SCIENCE IN FILM: ACTORS FACE PARKINSONS
I found the sensitive and touching recent film A Late Quartet while looking for movies to help me remember the great actor Philip …
SCIENCE IN FILM: MAKING AN EPIDEMIC PERSONAL
Dallas Buyers Clubtakes the painful issue of the HIV AIDS epidemic in America and makes it personal. This great movie tells the ex…
Science in Film: Inventing Hysteria
The dark and erotic French movie Augustine (2012, subtitled) exposes a complex relationship between a middle-aged neurologist, Cha…
Science in Film: Sleepwalker Crimes
Side Effects, the dark thriller from directorSteven Soderberghdissects the question of whether a person is guilty of crimes commit…
Science in Film: GMO Crops and the War On Drugs
What It Means to Disappear Here wraps the story of displaced families from Colombia with passion, in a new play by Jeremy J Kamps …
Science in Film: Fracking with Our Future
Gasland Part II Documentary Premier The audience rose for a standing ovation after the sold-out Gasland Part II documentary. It wa…
Science in Film: Jurassic Park Dinosaur Cloning in 3D
Jurassic Park 20 years after director Steven Spielbergs Jurassic Park broke all kinds of records, this April the new movie version…
