DVD Review: The Roommate, Bhutto and The Illusionist
Teenagedom and early adolescence is many things, but it’s perhaps chiefly characterized by a crazy hormonal swirl and the feeling that everything matters so deeply and acutely, and hasn’t been…
How To Live Forever Movie Review
Title: How to Live Forever Director: Mark Wexler Featuring: Suzanne Somers, Jack Lalanne, Ray Bradbury, Phyllis Diller and more Aging, if we’re lucky, is something that happens to all us.…
How to Fold a Flag Movie Review
Title: How to Fold a Flag Directors: Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein Home can be defined many ways. Is it your ancestral home? The place you were actually born? The…
Vanishing of the Bees Movie Review
Title: Vanishing of the Bees Directors: George Langworthy and Maryam Henein Narrated by: Ellen Page One needn’t have necessarily grown up with a dog who becomes uneasy prior to the…
How To Die In Oregon Takes A Look At The Death With Dignity Act On HBO This Thursday
Back in 1994, Oregon became the first state to give the okay to physician-assisted death. The Death with Dignity Act allows some terminally ill patients, ones who are already within…
The Big Uneasy Movie Review
Title: The Big Uneasy Director: Harry Shearer Special appearance by John Goodman, with the voice talents of Brad Pitt, Jennifer Coolidge, Wendell Pierce and Will Lyman If, as the saying…
DVD Review: Antichrist, Waiting for Superman, Once Fallen and The Black Sleep
Over the past two years there have been a spate of tiny, reform-touting documentaries lamenting the dismal state of American public education, including “The Cartel”, “The Lottery”, “Teached” and “Paramount…
Louder Than A Bomb Movie Review
Title: Louder Than A Bomb Directors: Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel We all have a need to be understood. That is the underlying essence of being human. For some it…
DVD Reviews: Blue Valentine, Meskada and Cul De Sac
One of the true gems of 2010, Blue Valentine, writer-director Derek Cianfrance’s heartbreaking debut effort, was mismarketed to within an inch of its life, and also suffered from “second-child syndrome,”…