My Favorite Movies: Citizen Kane
“Everything you hate.” There are so many avenues for writing about this film that it’s easy to become paralyzed trying to choose one. Its reputation precedes it, to put things […]
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Double Feature: Black Swan Princess
Only true love can break the spell. So it goes in the libretto for Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake, the source material for two wildly different films. I’ve come up with some […]
Wrestling with God’s Not Dead
I wasn’t able to go into this movie with an entirely open mind. Typically skeptical of faith-based movies (they tend to be mediocre and didactic), I was especially wary of […]
5 Poems by Walt Whitman
The third poet I’ve explored this year rests comfortably between the traditional formalism of Dickinson and the experimentation of Cummings. Whitman is, for many, the great American poet, the bard […]
Uh … 3 ½? — Mister Roberts
The Introduction This is one of those films I discovered by way of my mom, if memory serves. The first viewing may have happened at any point during the first […]
Geppetto's Clocks 