AND ANOTHER YEAR DRAWS TO A CLOSE: Movie Review of Hidden Figures by Howard Casner

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Warning: SPOILERS

This will be my last review for the year 2016.

Hidden Figures, the inspired by true events film written by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi, who also directed, based on a book by Margot Lee Shetterly, is about a group of black female mathematicians who played a large role in the US space program, especially getting John Glenn into space and around the earth a few times.

It is sincere, worthy, uplifting, informative and a real crowd pleaser.

But is it any good?

Well, I’m afraid if truth be told, not particularly. Read the rest of this entry »