On it, this madman with a thick German accent read classic tales of the macabre on side one, but the heart of the matter was found on side two. There he presented a brilliant 25-minute monologue called "Quadrupedism." In it, he makes the case that humans would be much better off if...
There are funny puns, clever puns, and then there are bad puns. Puns that are so cringy, predictable, and downright stupid that it might just be the most hilarious thing that you've heard. And that's just how it works with us, humans - the stupider the joke, the more we enjoy it...
From 1991 to 1993 I volunteered at the AIDS Hospice on Mission Hill in Boston. Since volunteers were not medically trained, our work was more housekeeping than anything else. (Yes, I can change the sheets of your bed while you’re in it.) We were also privileged to sit with the patient...
In it, DiCaprio plays a brooding U.S. Marshall named Teddy Daniels who emerges from the Boston fog in the opening scene aboard a boat heading for Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital, an institution for the criminally insane. Because this is a movie where nothing is what it seems, ...