Weekend Film Reviews
Hubble 3D; Eclipse
The Hubble Space Telescope, one of the crowning glories of our scientific age and it's the subject of the latest IMAX documentary, Hubble 3D. The movie's playing downtown at the California Science Museum. Shortly after the Hubble was launched in 1993 it was diagnosed with, and subsequently cured of, an extremely inconvenient case of astigmatism... Everyone is haunted by something in Conor McPherson's The Eclipse. This leisurely and quite lovely drama honors the conventions of Gothic ghost stories without the slightest stain of self-irony. The time is the present and the setting is a beautiful Irish town with a Gothic cathedral in County Cork...
By Joe Morgenstern • • 4m ListenThe Hubble Space Telescope, one of the crowning glories of our scientific age and it's the subject of the latest IMAX documentary, Hubble 3D. The movie's playing downtown at the California Science Museum. Shortly after the Hubble was launched in 1993 it was diagnosed with, and subsequently cured of, an extremely inconvenient case of astigmatism...
The Eclipse. This leisurely and quite lovely drama honors the conventions of Gothic ghost stories without the slightest stain of self-irony. The time is the present and the setting is a beautiful Irish town with a Gothic cathedral in County Cork...