Vito (Schwarz, 2011)
If you are a straight male of a certain age, Vito Russo’s book, The Celluloid Closet, may well have been your first introduction to … not gay people, exactly, but… Continue reading "Vito (Schwarz, 2011)"
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Iron Man 3 (Black, 2013)
The strange thing, the downright bizarre thing, about this quest is that Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures have wagered a lot of money on the proposition (if the film itself is any indication) that the audience won't care in the least whether superhero movies have stupid, artsy contrivances like themes
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Ballad of Narayama (Kinoshita, 1958)
The same month that the Academy was handing best Foreign Film honors to Michael Haneke’s Amour, The Criterion Collection released another foreign film examining aging and death, Keisuke Kinoshita’s 1958 The Ballad of Narayama.
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Pain & Gain (Bay, 2013)
"Is it just me, or is Michael Bay giving a deliberate middle finger to the Coen Brothers?"
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Oblivion (Kosinski, 2013)
Oblivion may be one of those films that is easier to mock than to dislike. It is certainly easier to criticize than to not enjoy.
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Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (Bernstein, 2012)
Ungerer ties his bold proclamation that "children should be traumatized" to his artistic vision that pushed children's fiction beyond the benign and banal.
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Exporting Love, Exporting Hate
One of the more striking contrasts between Rocky's mission and IHOP's is that his orphans have names.
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The Editor and The Dragon (Campbell and Clark)
In 1953, the Pulitzer Prize for was awarded to the editor of the Tabor City Tribune.
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After Tiller (Shane & Wilson)
Abortion is not an abstraction.
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A Fierce Green Fire (Kitchell, 2012)
Mark Kitchell's A Fierce Green Fire takes a longitudinal view, contextualizing arguments about global climate change by showing what led up to them.