
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES: DISILLUSION AND THE RETURNING VET
The war is over in the Pacific. Three servicemen are returning home. They bum a ride together on an Air Force transport plane, sitting in...
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS: OVERCOMING THE OBSTACLES
There is a scene midway through Eliza Hittman's soul-provoking new movie Never Rarely Sometimes Always that is wrenching in its...
The Lessons of Network in a Post-Modern World
Go ahead, open up the window, stick out your head and say it three times loud: I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!...
THE GRADUATE: THE SOUNDS OF LONELY SILENCE
It is a movie about choices, the wrong ones and the right ones and what do when you're not certain which are which. It is a movie about...
LEAVE NO TRACE: MOVIES OF ISOLATION
This occasional series will look at overlooked films on popular streaming services -- Amazon Prime, Hulu and Netflix -- that are well...
GROWING UP UNLOVED: MOVIES OF REBELLION
Rebel Without a Cause really gets the heart beating when the world is blown to bits. In an iconic scene near the beginning of the movie,...
WINE, ROSES AND WHISKEY
Addiction, in the form of mental illness and recovery, is a powerful reminder of the weakness in all of us and our sometimes-lethal...







