Hope Springs Eternal
The paradox of baseball philosophy in “Bull Durham”
Baseball is a young person’s game. From the first moment a kid can pick up a stick, they want to hit something with it. They want to run and chase and create places to call “safe!” And the games they play never adhere to time limits—they stretch as long as they need to so the play can last forever, as though it is youth itself that is at stake.…
My eyes snapped open at 2am on my bed in the Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco. Someone had stacked not just rocks, but boulders on top of me. My stomach churned. My breath labored. My head swirled with the strength of a typhoon. I needed to vomit, but I could barely move, and the harder it was to move, the more panicky I became. Nothing could have prepared me for this.
And it was all Brian De Palma’s [1] fault.
Nine hours…
What a spectacular horror movie. Damn that was as good as the roller coaster horror movies can get. Clearly Parker Finn learned some lessons from “Smile,” because the sequel is tighter, clearer, more ambitious and all-around an improvement on the original.
Naomi Scott, who’s a cross between Rosanna Arquette and Sarah Michelle Geller, is remarkably good here. She plays a pop star named Skye who becomes infected with the Smile Demon. Because her character is haunted by both her past…
We are in the middle of a classic monster renaissance.
With the release of “Nosferatu” on Christmas Day, and the upcoming release of both Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride,” it is clear that Hollywood thinks monsters are back.
Honestly, I am hard pressed to explain this. Perhaps it has something to do with the next occupant in the White House. Or not. The world has a lot of monsters right now, both foreign and domestic. It’s…
It's hard for me to judge A SHOT IN THE DARK based on its own merits, as I usually do, because I watched it on the request of my son, Tommy. Tommy is almost 14, and has autism. For the last few years he has been obsessed with film composers. He can recite the IMDb filmographies of most with savant-like precision, and often corrects me. His current favorite is Henry Mancini, and he asked me to sit down and watch…
Disclaimer: I am a high school English teacher. I mainly teach Freshman English. Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET is a required text. In 15 years, I've taught it about 10-12 times. So, it should be duly noted that I am hypercritical of any adaptation of a play with which I am incredibly familiar.
ROMEO & JULIET sucked. It is the worst adaptation of this play I've ever seen, and that includes high school stage productions, which make up for their lack of…
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