This month over at Five Books For, I’ve been looking at books where education is either a key theme or setting in the story. The book: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go spends a...
There’s a pleasing sense of continuity in moving from last month’s films - On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Best Years of Our Lives - into this one. Where that trio traced the...
The month of May arrives with high-voltage energy, marking a turning point both in movie theaters and in the world of streaming. Action fans are in for a treat, as several iconic pop culture...
35 years later, Wes Craven's best movie is also one of his least well known, and it's well worth dusting off the VHS off in our current Trumpian nightmare. The People Under the Stairs is an urban...
“Writers are unfilmable.” I forgot who told me this years ago, but while there are exceptions to this rule, the rule is there for a reason. Writing, for example, is probably the most important...
International Mother Earth Day, celebrated every April 22, reminds us of the historical debt we owe to the planet. Established by the UN in 2009, this day confronts us with a world wounded by the...
This month over at Five Books For I’ve been looking at classics in translation, and while there are plenty of options from around the world to explore, one that is closer to home - for me at least...
The Secret Agent is an elegiac, surreal, brutal yet hopeful, study of Brazil’s collective memory of life under the military dictatorship in the 1970s. The dreamlike fluidity of writer/director...
The title of Julie Forrest Wyman’s The Tallest Dwarf is a reference to the filmmaker and performer herself, who grew up questioning why her body didn’t share the proportions of those of her...
Of all the good films that recently hit streaming, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, which is now on Netflix, is probably the most overlooked. Now, obviously, hardcore fans of Alex Garland and Danny...
