Check out all of the posts tagged with "maths genius".
The Man Who Knew Infinity tells a thought-provoking, civilised story, Jeremy Irons and Dev Patel are excellent, and the Cambridge shooting is good too. Writer-director Matt Brown’s old-fashioned 2015 biopic of Indian maths genius Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar […]
X + Y = a really rather good spirit-lifting British movie. It is spurred on to win by a lovely performance by Asa Butterfield as Nathan, a socially awkward English teenage maths prodigy who lands a […]
Debut screenwriter Graham Moore fashions an enjoyable, popular screenplay out of Andrew Hodges‘s book about legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, and director Morten Tyldum makes a crowd-pleasing, old-fashioned entertainment out of it. Turing joins the team of code-breakers at Britain’s […]
In director Ron Howard’s moving and distinguished 2001 film, Oscar-nominated Russell Crowe gives a performance to crow about as real-life maths genius John Nash, afflicted with the terrible curse of paranoid delusions and schizophrenia. After […]
Gus Van Sant’s 1997 double Oscar-winning film is a highly intelligent, engrossing heart-warmer. Matt Damon gives a polished, magnetic, star-making performance as Will Hunting, a rebel university caretaker, a janitor at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of […]
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