Higher Ground marks actress Vera Farmiga’s 2011 directorial debut. The film stars Farmiga along with Dagmara Dominczyk, other strange-named ladies, and a few American-named gents. If you’ve never heard of the cast, then you know it must be extra special good. I recommend seeing this film for its dare to explore the complicated intricacies of […]
January 8, 2012
This is a review of an adapted film by someone who has not read the book before nor the TV adaptations prior. In fewer words, this is a movie review of a movie. The movie: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy directed by Tomas Alfredson and based on the novel by former British spy John le Carré. […]
October 1, 2011
Seth Rogen’s interview on The Daily Show last week convinced me to get to the theater and watch 50/50 starring Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Anna Kendrick, among others; three cheers for the power of PR. I was touched and intrigued by Rogen’s real-life connection to the story of a best friend diagnosed […]
September 7, 2011
My Whitman-inspired, Ginsberg-encouraged review of the 2010 film “Howl” centered around Allen Ginsberg’s poem by the same name. Read the poem by clicking here. I I saw a copy of the best of someone else’s generation on a Screen intent on spelling out facts, facts, facts, that insisted on telling us what it wanted to […]
July 19, 2010
If you’re anything like me, you can’t sleep in past 8am on your only days off; just one of the bummers of being a working grown up. Since I couldn’t sleep my Sunday away, it only made sense to go see a movie that takes place inside dreams within dreams within more dreams. Because I’m […]
January 22, 2012
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