The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The ever-unassuming Walter Mitty (director Ben Stiller, seemingly unable to choose just one side of the camera to focus on) …
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Grudge Match
Thirty years ago, Henry “Razor” Sharp (Sylvester Stallone) and Billy “The Kid” McDonnen (Robert De Niro) were on a collision …
Inside Llewyn Davis
Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is a typically flawed protagonist in the Coen Brothers mold. A Folk singer of some relative …
Saving Mr. Banks
Poor P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson); she was such a cold woman. Full of that stiff-upper-lip game-facing that we’ve come to …
Dallas Buyers Club
Dallas Buyers Club serves as the latest yellow brick on the road to career redemption for Matthew McConaughey. Remember the …
Blue Is The Warmest Color
The coming-of-age narrative tends to come alive for audiences in its reflection and recollection for us of situations and memories …
Kill Your Darlings
As literary advice, the notion that beleaguered writers must be willing to “kill your darlings” in order to find the …
About Time
Love is in the air again in the latest film from writer-director Richard Curtis (Love Actually), but this time he’s …
All Is Lost
The Cornel West Reader, as regular readers know, serves as a touchstone for me. The good professor acknowledges being driven, …
Inequality For All
As Labor Secretary under President Bill Clinton, Robert Reich was the lone voice raging against the madness of the economic …
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