The Company You Keep — An Old Liberal Looks at Old Radicals

4/15/2013

It’s long been a puzzle to me why the sizzling years in the United States from say, 1963 to 1975, …

The Life of Pi: To Believe or Not to Believe

12/4/2012

I am trying to understand why I came out grumpy rather than enthused from Ang Lee’s spectacular CGI movie, The …

12/1/2012

With a trip to Vietnam a few months ahead of me I’ve been running old movies and new books through …

8/28/2012

Sometimes you come upon a book or a movie you can’t figure out how you had missed earlier. I haven’t seen …

7/30/2012

Beasts of the Southern Wild has been wildly praised in many parts. We went to see it despite some trepidation …

3/16/2012

Seeing Michael Cimino‘s The Deer Hunter 30 plus years after it made such an impression in 1978 as one of the …

3/9/2012

My grandfather was a railroad man on the Southern Pacific; my father a model railroader with a setup that filled …