The opening of Last Love portrays two deaths. One of a wife, and another of a man who does not know how to live without her. The sorrow that fills his heart to replace the joy that she provided pulls the audience directly into his grasp. We are uncertain that we are marionettes being […]

  The joys of living a privileged life. Even amongst the absolute privilege of being an American, there is the relative privilege of having the luxury to choose to live as someone who can only subsist. Which is the choice afforded to the main protagonist, as he willfully abandons his world of ideas that may […]

  Stuck in Love coyly weaves together an ensemble piece of three different layers of romantic relations. It’s not exactly pretending to emulate Love Absolutely and its greater flurry at examining the different shapes that it expresses itself in the human condition. Notice I am reluctant to use the word “love”; it is too liberally […]

What perseverance the human spirit has! When organizing my reflection on this film, I could not but think of the adulation I bestowed upon the Irish people for enabling a Cristy Brown to overcome his cerebral palsy. If the Irish people are to be honored for creating a man who exploded his will onto the […]

  Inside Llewyn Davis is a brief story, circling the life of a folk singer. I pause to avoid claiming Lleywn Davis is an ambitious folk singer, as he seems content to wallow in his lack of commercial success. Contrast that with other’s he surrounds himself with, who are trying their hands at becoming commercial […]

Chef is a film that splendidly captures the revolution against the suffocation of the Last Man horde. While until the time of tweets, the profit motive married to mass production generated the necessarily degenerate mass media, vulgarizing society as a necessity of catering to the base needs the masses subscribe always to, the individual now […]

Redemption. What is it good for? Is it simply a self-indulgence to delude those which are being redeemed? Does it restore order and balance in the universe? Is this the legitimate rationalization by those who have wronged and are now seeking to make it right? That in the big scheme of things, that which extends […]

Perhaps the most confrontational to the questing – or lack thereof – of the Last Man arrives at the swelling tide of the consequences of finding vapidity in material pursuits. And that arrival is in the form of The Big Chill. Almost immediately, the viewer must appreciate the high-selectivity of the social class presented. They […]

  In what at first glance appears to be a film made to be Oscar-bait for everyone involved, Albert Nobbs transcends the boring historical fiction claptrap whose sole intention is to generate academy award nominations. It actually comes across as interesting, with barely a blip of mistaken pacing.   Mr. Nobbs, as the film viewer […]

  Consider this Woody Allen’s diatribe against the toxic and wasteful pollutants of his Manhattan. Nevermind the fact that a nostalgic look behind to the 70’s and 80’s of New York City would magically overlook the high incidence of crime city corruption and just outright unpleasantness, now the city is built by masters of the […]