I first watched Stanley Kubrick’s uncanny The Shining (1980) where I watched all
the great 80s horror movies, from Poultergeist to The Evil Dead —in the dark,
sacred confines of my best
“Initially,” Vladimir Nabokov writes in his autobiography Speak, Memory, “I was
unaware that time, so boundless at first blush, was a prison.” Human
consciousness seeks the infinite in the finite. It inevitably falls
As 2015 wrapped up, along came the lists of “Best Movies” and “Must-see TV.”
There is so much at our disposal as viewers today, and it can be easy to miss
the artistic
“The American Dream was alive everywhere except America.”
— Michael Moore in Where To Invade Next
Documentary filmmaker and activist, Michael Moore could make a movie about
nearly anything at this point. His Academy
Although detective stories frequently revolve around a missing person (a crime
that allows a little bit of chaos to pervade our brains with destabilizing
questions) and murders, most end with tidy conclusions that