Astrology: Film: ‘Nebraska’ (2013)

Astrology: Film: ‘Nebraska’ (2013)

People are quick to spit out old-people adjectives. Stubborn. Demanding. Irrational. In Alexander Payne’s Nebraska, Woody Grant (Bruce Dern) wears those descriptives proudly and even defiantly. His senior traits ignite, generating mayhem among those who love him and...
Astrology: Film: ‘About Time’ (2013)

Astrology: Film: ‘About Time’ (2013)

Who hasn’t ever wanted a do-over to rectify a mistake, poor decision or hurt? In About Time, directed by Richard Curtis, the lucky men in the Lake family can indeed go cosmically back into their personal pasts for life-redirecting fixer-uppers. Young British lawyer...
Astrology: Film: ‘All Is Lost’ (2013)

Astrology: Film: ‘All Is Lost’ (2013)

You won’t find a more graceful Saturn archetype than the one expressed in J. C. Chandor’s All Is Lost, a movie – more like a cinematic meditation – about Saturnine wisdom, solitude, old age, endurance, survival and mortality. The carrier of these traits, as referred...
Astrology: Film: ‘Gravity’ (2013)

Astrology: Film: ‘Gravity’ (2013)

In Alfonso Cuarón’s thriller Gravity, the title is a loaded word. In outer space, you’re free of that force of attraction between masses, that sense of grounding represented by Saturn. And yet in the case of NASA medical engineer Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock), maybe...