Backcountry is a well-acted film with a familiar premis
Foxcatcher chronicles the tragic partnership of multi-m
Hell hath no fury like a fairy whose wings have been
Hotels are a fascinating dichotomy. In their erection, they symbolize a cohesive permanence, while each of their subdivided quarters represents separation and temporality – momentary domiciles with perfunctory furnishings and individual use accoutrements like soaps, shampoos, and mouthwashes. Used once these items are thrown away. Used for a day, each room is inhabited and abandoned, like a […]
Hitchcock is tongue-in-cheek, sentimental, revealing, and, overall, a production – which seems to be the way that Hitchcock himself would have wanted it, if the film is to be believed. Admittedly, here lies the rub. Is it accurate that the master of suspense routinely spoke with such a mesmerizing and dreary cadence, extended both his lips and […]
Mar07
Characteristically, the road movie is a catharsis played out on the big screen. Mounting frustrations of quotidian, pedestrian existences crescendo into a need to break away from all that is familiar. At the same time, the road movie is a contradiction as characters escape the familiar by utilizing the uber-familiar and search for the unknown by means […]
Unless you plan to take off from work in observation of All Saints Day, it’s possible that the Tuesday morning alarm will prevent you from celebrating the witching hours of Halloween proper away with gallons of Guinness. However, if you happened to celebrate the day of the dead on the Saturday prior and you’re looking to have […]
In a November 12, 2010 article from The New York Times, Laurie Goodstein reports “The rite of exorcism […] has largely fallen out of favor with the Roman Catholic Church in the United States”; however, “American bishops are holding a conference […] to prepare more priests and bishops to respond to the demand [of those seeking an […]
