Category Archives: reviews

One of my goals over the week of vacation I just had was to get through Walker Percy’s Love in the Ruins. I wanted to read it mostly because he’s an important Catholic American writer, whose name always comes up … Continue reading →

In 1987, at 23, I had no trouble recognizing the genius in the film The Lost Boys. That vampires could easily go unnoticed as a group of Goth teens who partied all night on a California boardwalk and slept all day seemed … Continue reading →

What can one do after watching Nine but go watch 8 1/2, the Federico Fellini movie on which the lame musical was based. The movie was checked out at two video stores, showing that others have had this idea as … Continue reading →

We’re finishing up our viewing of the “nine” films… having seen District 9 over Christmas and last week just plain old 9, last night we watched the last, the musical Nine. I was not very excited about it being a musical, and … Continue reading →

A friend shared this video with me. After listening to it on my good home speakers, I have to say I don’t think at all that it is actually Herzog. The accent is overdone and the voice isn’t soft enough. … Continue reading →

My advice to film lovers is: watch German film, especially East German. Last week we watched Jerichow, a film by Christian Petzold. At first, it seems like a genre film about infidelity, and an obvious one at that. But it’s … Continue reading →

Any day that starts with Captain Crunch and Spongebob is likely to be good. If it’s followed up by an hour of 6-year-olds playing soccer, there isn’t much that can stop it’s trajectory upward. After eating the one thing I … Continue reading →

Winter, as you know, is movie time. Last year we settled into a good, long run with the director Werner Herzog. This year, sort of propelled by the Palm Springs Film Festival in mid-January, I was more alert to the … Continue reading →