Astrology: Film: ‘A Hijacking’ (2013)

Astrology: Film: ‘A Hijacking’ (2013)

When you’re CEO, you’re unquestionably in Plutonian control of the entirety of the enterprise. In A Hijacking, Tobias Lindholm’s psychological and weapon-wielding thriller, procedural certainty disintegrates instantly when Danish shipping company chief executive Peter...
Astrology: Television: ‘Orphan Black’: Uranian Sisters

Astrology: Television: ‘Orphan Black’: Uranian Sisters

“Orphan Black” started out when a gal with a drug debt, desperately in need of cash, stole a look-alike suicide’s ID. That’s when this dramatic thriller, broadcast in the U.S. through BBCAmerica, changed its identity. Make that identities. And after the program’s...
Astrology: Film: ‘The East’ (2013)

Astrology: Film: ‘The East’ (2013)

Eco-terrorists are still terrorists. But when they’re as earnest and nice as the ones in Zal Batmanglij’s The East, it will make life a lot more murky for the infiltrator who’s been assigned to find them, become one of them, and take them down. The woman assigned to...
Astrology: Film: ‘After Earth’ (2013)

Astrology: Film: ‘After Earth’ (2013)

Director M. Night Shyamalan’s After Earth is less the sci-fi action story it purports to be, and more a meditation on the prickly nature of the father-son relationship. After Earth is set far into the future, a thousand years after earth has become uninhabitable. The...