Call Me By Your Name is nothing less than a parade of perfect coming-of-age allegory that evokes the mystery, frustration, and overwhelming bliss of love. The film – director Luca Guadagnino’s most recent – follows the coming-of-age romance between Elio, an American boy living in Italy (Timothée Calumet), and one of his archaeologist father’s graduate…
The battle between journalistic integrity and the maintenance of one’s position is not unheard of in newspaper dramas. However, it comes with an added price in The Post. Editor in chief Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) is still coming down from years of working with Jack Kennedy, “pulling some punches” here and there to remain comfortable….
This essay is the author’s account of a fateful day William Langson Lathrop, a tonalist painter from New Hope, PA, spent off the coast of Montauk in September 1938. It won the 2017 Emerging Young Writers Prize for Nonfiction from the “Dan’s Papers,” a Long Island-based magazine. The deck of The Widge rocked gently in the September…
Alan Pakula’s 1976 drama All The President’s Men is a starkly realistic look at the investigation of the Watergate scandal by Washington Post journalists Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) and Bob Woodward (Robert Redford). When five men are arrested for breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Convention in Washington, D.C. with wiretapping equipment, Woodward…
Director Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys supposes that the insane are not, in fact, babbling nonsense; they very well may be prophets. In the aftermath of a deadly virus outbreak, humanity is living underground. Caged individuals are “volunteered” at random for unknown experiments, supposedly for the greater good – though no one has yet returned. James…
It’s hard to make working the Chicago standup circuit into an original story nowadays; Tina Fey and Scott Adsit have talked it up enough for the next century or so. Almost every aspiring comedian winds their way into the Windy City, and thus every successful one has roughly the same story as to how they…
Why does a surgeon keep a watch? In the O.R., you need to tell very precise time. It slips away from you every second: clamp another artery, sterilize the gash in the belly, steady hands, steady hands, plasma plasma plasma… There are measures you can take to keep a patient alive, for sure. But what…
“What would you do if you discovered that your life as you know it is a lie?” Brigsby Bear is not the first film with this ponderous question as it’s premise. However, the tale spun by writers Kyle Mooney and Kevin Costello asks a follow-up that adds a…quirky twist: “What if the life you knew…
A robbery gone wrong. It’s a good start. An ink pack explodes in a cab, sending the thieves – brothers Connie and Nick Nikas – scrambling to clean themselves (and the money) in a Domino’s bathroom. When the police finally catch up to them, Nick panics, running his way right through a glass door –…
The absence of love. The absence of a child. The absence of concern for anyone but oneself. “Selfish” would have been an equally fitting title for Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Loveless,” which recounts the hapless search two careless parents make for their missing son against the backdrop of a Russia in political mayhem. As the radio and…