I Do and I Don’t by Jeanine Basinger
Recent events have led me to wonder when, and indeed if, same-sex marriage will be a theme taken...
Tag: film
Independent Ed by Ed Burns
I’m not typically a rah-rah, go-team type of guy. I’ve never really been one to read something...
Hollywood Frame by Frame by Karina Longworth
I have come to a conclusion that of all the information with which I am plagued, I find it very...
Bombshell by James Reich
So many great “Avantpop” works—Steve Erickson’s Amnesiascope, Jonathan Lethem’s early genre...
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Night Film is suspenseful, obsessive and quirky read up to a point. The story revolves around...
Silver Linings Playbook, the movie
Directed by David O. Russell
Starring: Robert DeNiro, Bradley Cooper, and Jennifer Lawrence
I didn’t read this novel when it came out, it seemed impenetrable.…
Shame
Maybe it was a particular incident that caused emotional destruction, incest, rape, a child predator, whatever. In the end, the brother and sister played by Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan in the searing but warmly realistic ‘Shame’, are so clearly ruined that it is hard to imagine a pain they have not endured.…
