The husband unit and I haven’t had a date night in ages. It’s not neglect; it’s the result of a particularly eventful summer that had us moving to our new,…
When I wrote about A Serious Man for Roger Ebert’s Far-Flung Correspondents, I got some flak for misrepresenting the Christian god, even though I was specifically writing about the Jewish…
During my last year of university, I wrote an essay on the visual theme of chess in Jesus Christ Superstar. Think I’m stretching it? Then let me direct your attention…
“A line does not occupy space; it defines it.” In the advertising world, there’s something the scares the crap out of clients: blank space. “Can we put something in the…
I know some people might expect a blow-by-blow Ebertfest diary. But that’s just not my way. There’s a chronology to the bit that’s in the present tense, but once it’s…
Not that I’ve ever gone to any trouble to deny it, but I can’t, for the life of me, sit through even 5 minutes of a zombie movie. Hell: I…
So, you’re sending your army to fight for something they might not completely understand, and many of them will meet certain death in the process? They’re going to need a…
When I was a kid, I was luckier than I imagined. For one, I lived in Germany’s mystical Black Forest. For most of the 10 years that we spent there,…
There’s no way to dress it up: I didn’t meet my father until I was 16 years old. Circumstances, more than anything else, had a hand in it. For most…
You watched it, didn’t you? If you didn’t, you’re more of a statistic than I am. Because according to ratings reports, 20.5 million of us watched the Lost series finale.…
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