Sully opens with Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) having a PTSD-induced, 9/11-reminiscent vision of a plane crashing into a Manhattan skyscraper. This is the “what-if” scenario that haunts the titular hero after successfully landing the engine-blown Flight 1549 on the chilly Hudson River, and miraculously saving all 155 souls
Tag: American Sniper
American Sniper
If there’s one word to describe the film American Sniper, it is ‘enough‘. It is just enough as a Middle East war film in the eyes of an American soldier. The justification for the war on terror was enough to keep both the endless sieges to go on in real
American Sniper, Blackhat, M open this week in Philippine theaters
This week finds the release of American Sniper and Blackhat—two films I have already watched during the Awards, a.k.a. screener season. The former is a Clint Eastwood film perfectly fitting the Oscar mold; the latter being Michael Mann‘s under-sung work, which some imagine if titled “American Hacker” would have had ‘better chances’ in the awards
