Film Journal

WONKA: the stuff of dreams & oodles of fun!

Timothée Chalamet opens with a delightful and hopeful number, A Hatful of Dreams. He croons, I got nothing to offer but my chocolate, and a hatful of dreams. And indeed, WONKA (which I watched in December during opening weekend) is the stuff of dreams and oodles of fun! The brilliant and talented Timothée makes a …

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The Hummingbird Project: a metaphor on how money can’t buy even one more millisecond

A bit of context: The Hummingbird Project (2018)’s main premise is Vince Zaleski’s (played by Eisenberg) ambitious project of creating the fastest data connection between the Kansas stock exchange and the NYSE by building a point-to-point straight line of fiber optic tunnel, which then will give his investor’s company a millisecond of advantage (equivalent to …

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