James Gray

James Gray‘s coming-of-age film, Armageddon Time, is set in 1980. Most audiences would likely anticipate a nostalgic trip back in time, full of musical pop culture needle drops, lots of magic hour horizon shots, and big emotional Oscar bait moments with actors like Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Strong, or Anne Hathaway giving heartfelt soliloquies as the …

Man is a solitary creature. If there is anything to take from James Gray’s loving, and lovingly strange, 2001: A Space Odyssey hat tap, it’s the aching hole inside individuals which no amount exploration or discovery can fill. That may not be particularly comforting to fans of human scientific advancement, but its combination of cynicism …