27 September 2015

8 x 8

Pawn Sacrifice

Crit
With great power comes great responsibility, and jingoistic Americans in the early '70s found in a lunatic chess genius the superhero to humble the evil empire (yes, I know: it hadn't been called that yet, but not because we didn't think it). Tobey Maguire brilliantly embodies Bobby Fischer, a man for whom the universe was contained by 64 squares.
Trailers
  • Trumbo--Looks potentially cheesy, with the always potentially cheesy Bryan Cranston in the title role, but the trailer had me. Not to be confused with the 2007 documentary of the same title.
  • The Martian--Speaking of films my skepticism about which was blown away by a great trailer . . .

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