“Taking the Grandstand in ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7′”

Making history fun, and also not exactly true! Continue reading →

Review: Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, 2015, dir. Roger Allers

“Should we consider Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet kids’ fare? The default categorization for any animated movie with a child protagonist is “children’s film,” but if it’s easy to picture a theater full of tykes getting swept up in this movie’s gorgeous imagery, it’s equally as difficult to imagine them nodding along with its philosophical apothegms. … Continue reading →

Frost/Nixon, 2008, dir. Ron Howard

Watching Frost/Nixon, I couldn’t get past a strange and completely unexpected feeling I had deep in my gut. Something about the movie took me by surprise; something below the surface, something that no one would really expect out of a political drama focusing on the series of interviews David Frost (Michael Sheen) did with disgraced … Continue reading →