Attention film buffs and cinephiles: Do you have a film(s) that fits your criteria to a T and yet you continually pass up every opportunity to watch it? If you’re like me you do. (Currently Hell or High Water and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri are in my perpetual queue.) Why do we (I) do […]
It takes a certain discipline to read literature. There is no standard template, no conspicuous signposts to reassure along the way. The unraveling is sporadic, often leisurely and that tends to frustrate the mere genre fiction reader; yes, even those of us who like our airplane reads robustly seasoned with character development, metaphor and symbolism. […]
Back in the early days of the millennium when everybody was in love with quirk, Panic was the indie darling that all the critics were hot and bothered about. Since I consider myself a reasonably discerning moviegoer, I attempted to give it a go. I had to bail out. I didn’t get it. The other night […]
Whew! Get Carter–director Mike Hodges’ cinematic film debut and undisputed king of the British gangster movie–is complicated. That’s just one of the many things I love about it. It’s a righteous flick. It checks out. Intricate plot twists, lots of dialogue and low volume sequences where you have to listen ever so carefully, or at […]
A long time ago, back in the 40s and the 50s, Jim Thompson eked out a living writing about psychopathic sheriffs, hit men, treacherous women and…more hit men. It was heady stuff. You ever see the movie The Grifters? (If you haven’t you should. Great movie.) It’s adapted from the Jim Thompson novel of […]
Young people of today…I was once like you, in youth alone, a long time ago. I lived in the moment. I caroused in the day when my mother thought I was in school. I caroused in the night when my mother thought I was at the movies…or bowling…or playing putt putt. Young people of […]
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Scroll through and read the best of new poetry from all corners of the world: THANK GOD FOR PEARL, by Dennis De Rose https://festivalforpoetry.com/2018/03/09/read-poetry-thank-god-for-pearl-by-dennis-de-rose/ SUPER GEEZERS, by Bob Grant https://festivalforpoetry.com/2018/03/09/read-poetry-super-geezers-by-bob-grant/ PARENTAL LAMENT, by Mike Reed https://festivalforpoetry.com/2018/03/09/read-poetry-parental-lament-by-mike-reed/ THE TUNNEL PERFORMANCE SOCIETY, by Bob Eager https://festivalforpoetry.com/2018/03/09/read-poetry-the-tunnel-performance-society-by-bob-eager/ STILL SHE RISES, by Deepika Janiyani…
Ryan Gosling gives me hope. Maybe that’s because I’m a huge fan of 1970s cinema. Here’s what I mean: To me the 70s were the apex of the art form, when we still had big time movie stars that acted in a representational style and collaborated with iconoclast directors. It was a collision of contrast […]
Some parents live vicariously through their children. They are enlivened by their accomplishments. They are invigorated by their potential. With some families, the children are encouraged to carry on the familial occupation passed down one generation to the next. Doctor. Lawyer. Teacher, perhaps. Police officer. Nurse. That’s what Annie’s mother was. A nurse. Annie […]
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