The Movies

The theater was not what I expected.  It was a theater time forgot, with awful threadbare printed carpet and a box office with wooden ledges.  I bought my ticket ($12, thank you), and went up the stairs.  I turned the corner to go to the bathroom.  I almost ran smack into a cutout of a […]

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Where the Child Things Are

I wish Spike Jonze had invited me over to screen his new movie, and I would have said, “But what is this ABOUT?”  I don’t think the film takes a stand for or against conventional narrative structure, which bothered me, but then again, there is a good blanket fort. Max, in the movie, makes a […]

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