A Quiet Passion – Emily Dickinson and Spiritual Contemplation
While watching A Quiet Passion I was struck by how well Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon) would fit in with today?s ?spiritual but not religious? sentiment.
While watching A Quiet Passion I was struck by how well Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon) would fit in with today?s ?spiritual but not religious? sentiment.
now, if you’ve Netflix, you’ve noticed a number of new stand-up specials nestling about the new releases i do and?have, and dig the comedy, and so recently?dug Chappelle, Louis C.K., Jo Koy, Amy Schumer; got eyes on others i also?dig on Pete Holmes, and so dug season one of Crashing on HBO, which is Judd…
In the debut our new page, “OtherFish,” where we’ll cover the various pieces of media that catch our attention that aren’t?movies or television, I am proud to present the work of one of our own ScreenFishers, Jason Norton. After years of slaving away over writing, editing, and journaling his own stories, Norton has proudly release…
The Transfiguration is a different kind of vampire movie. But then it?s not really a vampire movie because we don?t have any of the undead who cannot stand the sun and are killed with a stake.
Of course, this is not just a history lesson of a turbulent time. The film never mentions more recent issues that have led to Black Lives Matter, but one cannot watch this film and not see today?s world.
Janine “Smurf” Cody (Ellen Barkin) runs her family with an iron fist. She’s the mother and grandmother to a handful of young men who run her Southern California crime syndicate for her. Joshua “J” Cody (Finn Cole) is our audience viewpoint into the family, as he’s adopted by Smurf after Cody’s mother (and Smurf’s daughter)…
It is rare that a film can seem to be poetry, and that may be even more difficult when the film has no dialogue. Yet The Red Turtle manages to be just that.
At the end of the day, we all want to go somewhere that has a roof to protect us from the elements, allows us to spend quality family time, and offers us security from intruders. In short, we want shelter.
There are four main animals that we get to meet and learn about: giant pandas, golden snub-nosed monkeys, snow leopards, and chiru antelope. The film flows back and forth between these animals as season moves to season.
The modern concept of genocide did not begin with the Holocaust; it started with the attempted extermination of the Armenians during the early years of World War I. The Promise tells the horrifying tale through the story of a love triangle (or perhaps quadrangle).