Andy Howell

Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike DeGruy

By Andy Howell | February 2019

As an avid diver, scientist, and film buff, I’m a sucker for documentaries about the ocean. All life on Earth as we…

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As an avid diver, scientist, and film buff, I’m a sucker for documentaries about the ocean. All life on Earth as we know it may have arisen there,...

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Since this is my first article looking at the science in a movie on Film Threat, it is worth an introduction. While my main job is staff astronomer at Las...

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Humans setting foot on the moon may be the most widely known story in human history. Yet most people don’t know many of the details, or much about the...

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Green Book stars Mahershala Ali as pianist Don Shirley and Viggo Mortensen as his driver and bodyguard Tony Vallelonga aka Tony Lip, as the two tours the...

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I will add my voice to the chorus saying that A Star Is Born is phenomenal. There were plenty of reasons to be skeptical. It is a fourth version of the...

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You may be thinking, “Do we really need a feature film about Gary Hart’s failed 1988 presidential campaign?” I’ll give you three reasons why...

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Hotel Mumbai is based on the true story of the 2008 terrorist attacks on Mumbai, which killed 164 people and wounded 308 over four days. It mainly...

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I love Westerns in all their forms, so when I saw that the Toronto International Film Festival was showing a Jacques Audiard (A Prophet) directed Western...

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Going into Fahrenheit 11/9, I was honestly expecting a mediocre film. Did anyone see his last one, Michael Moore in Trumpland? I saw the announcement...

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There is a hell of a lot of masturbation in Claire Denis’ latest film, High Life, and that’s as good a metaphor as any for the film. High Life is...

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