Crackskull Row – There’s a Play In There Somewhere Crackskull Row, Dublin, 1999. “May Eve, a night when the veil between then and now, the living and the dead is slim.” Rasher Moorigan [...] September 7, 2016
Five Films About The Labor Movement It’s often forgotten in the whirlwind of grilled hot dogs and sparklers but Labor Day was originally meant to celebrate well…labor and [...] September 5, 2016
The Light Between Oceans – Love Found, Lost, and Found Again The Light Between Oceans directed by Derek Cianfrance is a beautiful and heartbreaking film. The light refers to the lighthouse on Janus, [...] September 2, 2016
Kate Mara in Ridley Scott’s Morgan Morgan is not like other five year-olds. She has the appearance of a young adult, yet she was created and raised in a lab by a group of [...] September 2, 2016
Don’t Think Twice – Go See It It takes a special kind of person to stand before a crowd of strangers, risking emotional immolation and the searing pain of a silent room, [...] August 30, 2016
Five Great College Films Ah, September, when the weather grows cooler, the leaves start to change, and everyone goes back to school including everyone in higher [...] August 30, 2016
A Day by the Sea – Is There Life After Forty? In a note on 1953’s A Day by the Sea, its playwright N.C. Hunter suggests that 40 signifies “…a foot in two worlds, half way between [...] August 26, 2016
Touch – What Is It To Connect? Touch-come so close to (an object) as to be or come into contact with it Touching-arousing strong feelings of sympathy, appreciation, or [...] August 25, 2016