Movie Law dictates that any film about maths geniuses must have at least one scene with hundreds of equations being hurriedly chalked on a giant blackboard. But what I want to know is are these film squiggles real, and if so who writes them? First Hidden Figures, and now Gifted – either Octavia Spencer, who appears in both, is a real-life mathematical genius, or… Gifted Read More
Hidden Figures 4 stars
Space travel is almost a religion in 1960s America, with NASA its church and the clever, brave and handsome astronauts its would-be Messiahs. To the extent that for three black women, informing an aggressively racist white cop who has appeared by their broken down vehicle that they actually work for the space programme results in an admiring escort to their… Hidden Figures Read More