When Izzy found out she was pregnant, she thought she had a plan. She’ll marry the baby’s father, her high school art teacher, and they’ll live a happy life together. But things rarely go as planned, do they? Izzy finds herself alone and pregnant, working on her feet at a barbecue joint where she pulls…
HOW TO TRANSCEND A HAPPY MARRIAGE is an edgy look at love and the conventional perception of it’s boundaries i.e…does real love have to be limited to only one other and is it also limited to a type of love?…be it friendship, familial, or sexual. I know that sounds ambiguous, but it poses a legitimate…
In Zhang Yimou’s recent Chinese monster epic, William Garin (Matt Damon) and Pero Tovar (Pedro Pascal), two European mercenaries seeking black powder, are taken captive by the Nameless Order, guardians of China’s Great Wall. The Commander of the Crane Troop, Lin Mae (Jing Tian), holds them prisoner as a cyclical battle between the Order and a force of…
Dear Bookworms, Recently, I received a recommendation from a well-respected business leader to read the book Monday Morning Leadership. He recommended it as one that had impacted his own perspective significantly and so I took note. For readers, teachers, or just life-long learners, a good book is an invaluable tool, and if this one has…
In Transit is an upbeat, hopeful, a cappella musical set in the dirty depths of the NYC subway system. The story is synonymous with the transient nature of New Yorkers themselves; always on the move…always going somewhere…not always sure exactly where. As an audience, we are eavesdroppers, watchers, voyeurs to the conversations and activities that…
Write Readers, we’re about halfway there! The next film on the list is absolutely my favorite, and the one I’m rooting for to win the Academy Award for Best Picture: Lion. Lion is the true story about an Indian boy named Saroo who gets lost from home at the age of five, and it takes…
The next film on our list is as different as different could be, both within its genre and this category. And it’s a space movie, which all avid Write Readers know I actively avoid. (Please see the Gravity post for further explanation.) Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, and Forest Whitaker, is a science fiction…
Dear Write Readers, Another year has passed! Another year older, perhaps another year wiser, and another Oscar season is upon us! How time flies! Let’s start our journey in the Wild West. The wild, new West, we could call it. Opening on wide open spaces and vast emptiness, “Closed” signs and motionless trains, this Texas…
Keep on keeping on, Write Readers. We’re trucking through our list. Let us discuss the Amazon original film, Manchester by the Sea. Manchester by the Sea was written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan, and starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, and Lucas Hedges. The film was first premiered at Sundance, at which point it…
Ah yes, the City of Angels. In our next film, it has been confirmed that Hollywood is the most vapid place anyone has ever been, or will ever be again. I spent two hours in La La Land, and really couldn’t wait to get back. Here it is, folks, the darling of the Golden Globes…