This year was weird. I cannot explain why exactly (maybe Mama had something to do with it?), but 2014 was a weird (and I guess at times wonderful) year for movies. A lotta dumb busts, but a lot of incredible features that made up for whatever Hollywood…

Having read A Brief History of Time somewhere over a year-long astronomical reading binge not too long ago along with watching Netflix’s streaming of Stephen Hawking’s television series Into the Universe, I became acquainted with the cosmologist and his black hole studies—who, by reading his work,…