SHIRLEY: THE HAUNTING OF JACKSON'S HOUSE
Shirley Jackson was known to get under the skin. Her most famous work, the short story "The Lottery," concerned a women who wakes to the...
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RESOLUTIONS
The cat-iris greens, the reds of the eyes The dull blinkered yellow of anticipation, Decisions made in a vacuum, air swirling like stars....
SOMETHING FROM NOTHING
Where do I go when there is nowhere to go What do I do when there is nothing to do How do I cope when there is nothing to cope with What...
THE COLLECTOR
Run like the wind, move like a banshee, power and propulsion For naught is those who stand still and do not venture Beyond the backyard,...
DA 5 BLOODS: SPIKE LEE'S RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE
What's going on? With Marvin Gaye's protest music providing the jolting backdrop for Spike Lee's latest joint, Da 5 Bloods, the following...
The Lessons of Network in a Post-Modern World
Go ahead, open up the window, stick out your head and say it three times loud: I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!...
THE GRADUATE: THE SOUNDS OF LONELY SILENCE
It is a movie about choices, the wrong ones and the right ones and what do when you're not certain which are which. It is a movie about...
WHERE HAVE ALL THE GOOD ROCK MOVIES GONE?
What's so funny about peace, love, understanding and making a really good rock movie that's not just another easy biography? The former...
LEAVE NO TRACE: MOVIES OF ISOLATION
This occasional series will look at overlooked films on popular streaming services -- Amazon Prime, Hulu and Netflix -- that are well...
THE FAREWELL: PUT ON A HAPPY FACE
There is delusion that means unnecessarily avoiding confronting a grimmer reality and delusion that is sometimes necessary to survive....
MIDSOMMAR: HEALING EQUALS HORROR
Depending on your view of the world, Midsommar -- the 2019 horror movie from Ari Aster, who directed the equally sinister Hereditary --...
GROWING UP UNLOVED: MOVIES OF REBELLION
Rebel Without a Cause really gets the heart beating when the world is blown to bits. In an iconic scene near the beginning of the movie,...
WINE, ROSES AND WHISKEY
Addiction, in the form of mental illness and recovery, is a powerful reminder of the weakness in all of us and our sometimes-lethal...
PARASITE: LIFE UNDERGROUND
The division of the classes has been a consistent movie theme since the cinema's early days. Charlie Chaplin's tramp came from those...
JOJO RABBIT: CUTE, CLOYING, CONFUSED
I went into a screening of Taiki Waititi's Jojo Rabbit uncertain what to expect. This tale of an 11-year-old German boy talking to...
LIttle Women: THE ENDS OF AMBITION
There is plenty of irony in Greta Gerwig's fine adaption of Little Women. Most of it comes from the fact that while marriage and career...
Macho Men Night at the Movies
I've just finished watching the 1963 World War II film The Great Escape, a daring, almost three-hour-long account of an attempted...
The Subtle Subversivness of Mister Rogers
As I walked out of a movie theater on a cold winter afternoon after seeing It's a Beautiful Day, I heard a couple remark how the film was...
Uncut Gems: Ambition as Ammunition
In Uncut Gems, the wild ride of a movie from Josh and Benny Safdie, a black opal diamond can bring mystical powers. According to one...
The Irishman: A Moral Slippery Slope
To paraphrase, Friedrich Nietzsche, morality comes in two flavors. There is the Judeo-Christian-based form that favors moral kindness and...
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