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Posts tagged "Oscar Isaac"

Oscar Isaac stars in Marvel’s latest excellent Disney+ series, Moon Knight.  Mr. Isaac plays Steven Grant, a shy, nebbishy fellow who works in the gift shop of the British Museum in London.  Mr. Grant is afflicted by a weird problem in which he seems to lose time and wake up i

Frank Herbert’s Dune is one of my very favorite novels.  I adore it and have read it many times.  (Each time I read it, I feel like I inch closer to full comprehension.)  I have a soft spot in my heart for David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Dune; it’s a terrible mov

The X-Men film franchise began with such promise but it’s been a big mess for quite a while now.  Bryan Singer’s 2000 X-Men film launched the golden age of super-hero films that we’re still living in.  No one had ever before brought a super-hero team to life on scr

In the ripping crime yarn A Most Violent Year, Oscar Isaac plays Abel Morales, the owner of a Brooklyn-based oil company.  As the film opens, in 1981, Abel and his friend and attorney, Andrew Walsh (Albert Brooks), have just secured a great deal: the purchase of an enormous fuel term

In Alex Garland’s film Ex Machina, Domhnall Gleeson plays Caleb, a young programmer for Bluebook (a company that, in the world of the film, is the world’s most popular search engine).  Caleb wins a contest to spend a week with the company’s brilliant and reclusive y