The world has not been kind to Troy Maxson (Denzel Washington). Though he had outstanding talent on the baseball diamond, he couldn’t break the color barrier of the majors the way Jackie Robinson did, despite a high batting average. Troy … Continue reading FENCES
What can one possibly say that might even begin to distill and codify 2016? From an endless string of celebrity deaths that prompted an entire year of retrospectives and tributes, to almost daily mass shootings, to a presidential election that … Continue reading 2016 in…
There is an old saying that you should never meet your heroes. They may disappoint you. The Belgian comedy from writer/director Jaco Van Dormael, The Brand New Testament, takes that one step further. Maybe you shouldn’t meet God. You may find … Continue reading THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT (LE TOUT NOUVEAU TESTAMENT)
The city of Los Angeles is home to a million stories, all of them different, many of them sad. They don’t always start out that way. Most arrive in the City of Stars as eager young dreamers with their heads … Continue reading LA LA LAND
You may not know who Harry Benson is, but you certainly know his photos. How about the one where Muhammad Ali is stunt punching all four Beatles? Or the locker room shot of O.J. Simpson? How about the time Nixon … Continue reading HARRY BENSON: SHOOT FIRST
What does the future hold? If one thing is certain, its past successes are of little indication for future endeavors. Yet, we can’t help but fall into that trap, thinking that we are going along fine and dandy before it … Continue reading THINGS TO COME
The world breaks everyone,” Ernest Hemingway wrote in A Farewell to Arms, “and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very … Continue reading MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
Aug. 1, 1966: U.S. Marine and University of Texas at Austin engineering student Charles Whitman entered the UT tower, climbed to the 28th floor, took his position, and opened fire on the campus. For the next 96 minutes, Whitman shot … Continue reading Keith Maitland on TOWER
There is a special kind of joy that accompanies revisiting a favorite movie time and time again. We see ourselves in the faces of those on screen, their problems as ours, and no matter how long ago the movie was … Continue reading Randall Harper on IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
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