By Dale King Those planning to see Inherit the Wind at Lake Worth Playhouse are admonished not to believe everything they see on stage. Even the play’s co-authors, Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, say the drama is a “fictionalized” retelling of the famous 1925 Scopes “Monkey” trial that made a criminal out of a high school teacher bent on teaching evolution according to … [Read more...]
‘I Origins’: Movie of ideas almost loses way in Hollywoodism
Mike Cahill and Brit Marling make science-fiction films that don’t feel at all removed from present day — or should we say prescient day. Another Earth, their 2011 debut, posited the discovery of another Earth-like planet, and its tortured protagonist enters a contest to fly their on a civilian spacecraft, in a project spearheaded by a millionaire entrepreneur. Two years … [Read more...]