The Strange Things We Do for Love
I have always been partial to the Everything But the Girl version of Mickey & Sylvia’s “Love Is Strange,” with …
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The Drop
In adapting his own short story (“Animal Rescue”), screenwriter and novelist Dennis Lehane (Gone Baby Gone and Shutter Island) shifts …
The 2014 TIFF Alternative: Managing High Expectations
Six years of attending the Toronto International Film Festival is a relatively short-period baseline for gauging expectations, but the festival …
Reflecting on ‘The Double’ and How Nature Nurtures
We know Simon (Jesse Eisenberg) all too well. In fact, some of us might recognize elements of Simon in ourselves. …
‘Life of Crime’ Pays the Highest Tribute to Elmore Leonard
For the past five years or so, I’ve been caught up in a crime fiction haze. Leading up to this …
‘Calvary’ Asks Us to Walk Alongside a Good Man
A village priest (Brendan Gleeson) in coastal Ireland hears weekly confessions. His parishioners enter, knowing that there’s little to no …
Historic Lives Onscreen
After an awards season in 2013 dominated by a series of inspired stories ripped from the historic record — Mandela: …
Let’s Be Cops
Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. have established an easy and engaging enough rapport on the hit television series New Girl, …
Magic in the Moonlight
In the poem “Marmion,” Sir Walter Scott opined, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to …
Director Michael Dowse Embraces Affairs of the Heart
We all recognize the emotional trauma associated with broken hearts — the emptiness of loss, the insecurity of being left …
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