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A lot has been said about Brendan Fraser’s performance as a 600 pound man trapped in his apartment somewhere in Idaho. I don’t think more needs to be added by me, but after seeing it a second time, I realized … Continue reading →

I’m writing this review to purge my feelings. I don’t know why I thought a movie about a donkey on a journey was going to end on an upbeat note. Maybe it’s because we’re taught by Disney to expect upbeat … Continue reading →

This movie could work easily as pure fiction, but it is based on the author’s real life experience in deciding to become a marine, given that his choices in life are bleak. In reality, Elegance Bratton has told people that … Continue reading →

Back when I still had a writers group, or maybe it was in a class, we were talking about the absolute glut of books and movies about vampires. It began, probably, with Ann Rice, but really Bram Stoker and the … Continue reading →

This was a great biography. Someone asked me at a dinner who my favorite singer was and I almost instantly answered George Michael. He had been dead 3 years at that point. But I’m not exactly sure why. It just … Continue reading →

This is a divisive movie, but only because so many people have invested so much time and energy in thinking, reading, watching, and staring at Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Mortensen), including, but not limited to, this filmmaker and the writer … Continue reading →

by Katie Silberman (screenplay) Carey Van Dyke (story) Shane Van Dyke (story)Directed by Olivia Wilde I want to add my two cents because this has been getting some bad reviews and a lot of the invented arguments over Harry Styles … Continue reading →

I had previously seen at the New York Film Festival one of this filmmaker’s earlier films called Tropical Malady which was a mysterious but absolutely beautiful film about a couple of guys who fall in love. They are completely different: … Continue reading →

I haven’t attempted a review in a while, so I thought I’d try reviewing this one. I think it was The Times that quoted The Great Gatsby in trying to describe the characters in this movie, but someone who was … Continue reading →

I forgot, for some reason, to brag. Glimmertrain was a marvelous outlet for short stories and short shorts and they stopped publishing some time ago. I submitted for one of the very last short story awards and made it to … Continue reading →