When true love waits The first song, “Burn the Witch” on Radiohead’s newest album is in homage to the brilliant British cult classic horror…
The Emperor’s Club (Ethan Canin & Neil Tolkin, 2002)
Features & First Impressions The ‘inspirational-teacher’ genre has proven attractive to Hollywood: think Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939),
Culture Care (Makoto Fujimura, 2014)
Books / Maturity and Flourishing / Visual Art / Work and Rest
Beauty in Life An important word for artist Makoto Fujimura is generative, by which he means anything that brings beauty into life to bring…
Rumours of Glory: A Memoir (Bruce Cockburn, 2014)
Sometimes a wind comes out of nowhere In Minnesota we are used, each winter, to the jet stream bringing great stretches of cold arctic…
The Big Short (Adam McKay, 2015)
The power of money and greed On September 15, 2008 the Wall Street bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. It was the beginning of…
Serrano’s Piss Christ Reconsidered
I first became aware of Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ in a conversation with Howard Fox, then curator of contemporary art at the L.A. County…
A Storybook Bible for Grownups
I’ve plagiarized the title for this review—it’s the subtitle of a new book from Square Halo Books: Revealed: A Storybook Bible for Grown-ups. I…
Henry Poole is Here (Albert Torres, 2008)
1. What was your first impression? What lines of dialogue, visual settings or aspects of the soundtrack stood out to you? 2. What genre…
Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie, 1997)
Features & First Impressions 1. Reviewer Louise Keller (Urban Cinefile) writes, “This charmer of a film is one you will never forget. The elements…
Seducing Doctor Lewis (Jean-Francois Pouliot, 2004)
Features & First Impressions 1. Despite winning 14 awards at various Canadian and U.S. film festivals in 2003 and 2004 (including the audience award…