Lit Flicks: Literary Adaptations Offer Lots of Ideas for the Reader on Your Gift List
The holiday and movie-award season occupies one of the biggest and blackest quarters (as in bottom line) in the consumer …
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The Lightness of Bee-ing: ‘Bee Season’ Addresses Spirituality in Subtle Ways
Our tumultuous political climate has threatened to overtake the realm of film as each side battles for the right to …
The Alternative – Dead Ends
Not that long ago, I woke up on Sunday mornings, loaded my five-disc changer with the likes of Cassandra Wilson, …
It’s Hard Out There for a ‘G’
From the Year of the Woman to the Year of the African American, we are constantly looking to Hollywood for …
The Alternative – Revisiting Genius
He asked, “Who are you?” Good question, but I wasn’t the subject of this peculiar exchange. That would be Marc …
Dream Sister
Director Tony Scott takes on the troubled life of model-turned-bounty hunter Domino Harvey A dark angel, he’s shuffling in/ Watching …
Rewriting History
Filmmaker David Cronenberg puts his distinctive stamp on a graphic novel In Adaptation, screenwriting genius Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) struggles …
The Alternative – Creative Recall
It’s been five years since I moved to Cincinnati. There’s no need to present a “woe is me” vibe because …
The Alternative – American Family (The Al Green Remix)
The older I get, the more I find myself longing for the bygone days of my youth. That sounds more …
Devils and Dabblers
‘Skeleton Key’ unlocks hoodoo secrets On the first track of his 1993 album Triage, David Baerwald created a noirish “Secret …
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