So, a bizarre sixty game baseball season is about to start. It will be played with no one in the stands. There will be no sunflower seeds because there will be no spitting. No one will high five a teammate who just hit a grand slam. Managers will have to yell at...
Vampires have a wide range of portrayals in our culture. They have scared us (Noferatu, and Dracula), become love interests (the Twilight series), a metaphor for sexual variation (True Blood), comic figures (What We Do in the Shadows), or a mixture of all of the above...
?There are these two armies that are going to meet: this tiny little army of journalists?five, or six, seven?and this army of policy.? The role of a journalist is to share the truth. During the early years of the Vietnam War, a small group of young journalists who...
?I feel that the problem?s really that I just don?t know what kind of Muslim I am. Like there?s Friday prayers and then there?s Friday night and I?m, like, at both. I wanna pray. I wanna go to the party.? The Hulu original series, Ramy, takes us into the world of a...
?We?re not in this world to find answers, but to ask qestions.? Nikolaus Leytner?s The Tobacconist is a tale of looking for love, finding wisdom, and becoming an adult. As with many coming-of-age films there is movement from innocence to facing harsh realities. How...
Open sea. No air cover. U-boats hunting in a pack. 37 merchant marine ships taking supplies and troops to the war in Europe. A handful of destroyers trying to protect the convoy. The man in charge is a first-time captain. Greyhound is primarily an action movie, but it...
Kashmir has been the site of conflict between India and Pakistan since the partition in 1948. Although it is majority Muslim, it is controlled by India. As the conflict has gone on, there have been many who have been arrested (officially or unofficially) and never...
Atom Egoyan is adept at creating cinematic puzzles for us to assemble. We aren?t quite sure what it will all look like when it is complete, but as we piece together the various facts and memories, we discover not necessarily the truth as much as emotional and...
What makes a religion? Do all worldviews have the same validity? How are we to judge? Those are all worthy questions for consideration. I had hopes that I, Pastafari: A Flying Spaghetti Monster Story would provide some insight to those issues, but in the end I was...