Midnight Special (2016)

Midnight Special (2016)
Rating: ★★★
Apr 9, 2016Gifted Otherworldly Child
This feels like a reworking of late 70s/early 80s sf films like Starman and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Much of the film is based around a series of amazing happenings but its crucial failure as science-fiction is the lack of explanations for why these are happening

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
Rating: ★★★
Jun 15, 2019Delusionary Modern-Day Quest
This has been called the unluckiest film ever made - there is even an entire documentary devoted to the collapse of a prior version. Here Terry Gilliam's film about people on delusional quests finally emerges with the glory he always intended it to be