Biography

In reflecting on the year, a film that always comes up in my mind is Audrey Diwan’s 1960s abortion drama, Happening. Many would point to the film’s startlingly prescient release just weeks before the Dobbs…

I will never forget how I felt the moment I finished reading Capote’s In Cold Blood. I was overwhelmed by sadness and disappointment, not because the book was bad, but that I was aware that it…

When starting Sergio, I knew nothing about the movie or its main character. The name sounded sexy. In my imagination, I thought I was going to watch a thriller. On the poster, I saw a…

Do you see what happens when the imagination is super-imposed upon the historical event? It becomes a story… – N. Scott Momaday You should never judge a book by its cover. These are words we’re…

I saw Bohemian Rhapsody in the theater recently, and I wasn’t familiar with the ratings it got on Rotten Tomatoes — though it’s usual for me to check — and I wasn’t too concerned with the…

The Room. Gosh, where do you begin with this colossal disasterpiece? How could you approach such a monumentally laughed at film with such sincerity and reverence? And how in God’s creation did a man none…