One of the many titles I can claim is that of a man with a wide and varied history of head trauma. It ranges from simple falls to something I refer to as the Zimbabwe Fiasco , and it affords me a...
Hedeby Island, Sweden. Henrik Vanger, the venerable head of the powerful Vanger dynasty, opens a parcel from Hong Kong. The contents, a neatly pressed flower, floor the old man as surely as if a...
I’ve heard a lot about "Up In The Air," partially because it was just Oscar season, and partially because reviewers across the country have written about it as excessively as sports writers wrote...
Boston Harbour Islands, 1954. Music, dreadful and foreboding, starts up like impending doom. A ferry is lashed by slate grey weather, the opening bars of an orchestral hurricane to come. Puking his...
To this jaded New Yorker, the recent political brouhaha surrounding Tibetan filmmakers Tenzing Sonam and Ritu Sarin’s “The Sun Behind The Clouds: Tibet’s Struggle for Freedom” seems much...
Iraq 2003. The “shock and awe” party is in full effect, tracer fire lights up the night sky and concussion blasts from “smart” bombs shake gilded masonry into the lap of the movie theatre....
Driving home from work this evening, I head the news that Corey Haim was dead. I guessed it was a drug overdose, but I didn’t guess how I would feel. Gutted. Stupid, I know, considering I’ve...
Isn’t it funny, that when it comes to the end of the world, we’ll buy monsters, zombies and aliens as the harbingers of Apocalypse, but we won't give the man (or woman) upstairs the time of day...
Writer/director Conor McPherson’s “The Eclipse,” based on a short story by Billy Roche, is a bittersweet romance with a gothic horror twist set in a sleepy Irish seaside town. The film...
“My name is Salmon, like the fish. First name Susie. I was fourteen years old when I was murdered on December 16th, 1973. I wasn’t gone. I was alive in my own perfect world. But in my heart, I...
