The Men Who Stare at Goats: Directed by Grant Heslov. With George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey. A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S.
Here isa post I wroteduring my own year abroad about the history of the American Girls Art Club in Paris, which includes some of my own photos to accompany the book. I’m posting a few more below. They may not be the best quality, but hey, I was there and it was cool. You get ...
The movie also has enough exposition so one doesn't have to know all the ins and outs of Doctor Who in order to enjoy it, but the fact it's a TV production perhaps prevents it from blowing the viewer's mind. However, considering this the production values are excellent, the set ...
The award-winning journalist wrote for the Washington Post and the New York Times before becoming an anchor of public television news programs “PBS NewsHour” and “Washington Week.” Her career also included moderating the vice presidential debates in 2004 and 2008. She was 61.Full obituary (...
Born in Paris on July 4, 1900, French poet and writer Robert Desnos was a key figure in the surrealist movement and became involved in the French Resistance against the Nazis in 1939. Desnos wrote a number of critical essays about the Nazis under pen names while also serving in the French...
Below is a text I wrote for Nitehawk on women in horror film in conjunction with the film program, Final Girl… “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House Nitehawk’s Final Girl program cele...
On April 21, 1983, while the May issue was on sale, Leo Lerman, an old Condé Nast hand who had his own fiefdom at Vogue, wrote the following in his diary: “Today Alex offered me Vanity Fair. I wanted that more than anything... Too late? ... Si, he says, [is] opposed be...
In between the production ofKick-Ass 2and its release, the terrible school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School took place, and it had a profound impact on one of the movie’s stars, Jim Carrey. As the movie approached its premiere in the summer of 2013, Carrey wrote on his Twitter...
writer Nicole Givens Kurtz, and many more. Edited by Jesse J. Holland, distinguished visiting scholar in residence at the U. S. Library of Congress who edited the Marvel anthologyBlack Panther: Tales of Wakandaand wrote the novelization of the graphic novelBlack Panther: Who Is the Black ...
Instead, Fisher played the part with grit and verve, and as Dave Itzkoff wrote in her Times obituary, she “could very much deal with her own distress.” She fired blaster pistols alongside the film’s lead male roles; she became a Resistance general in her own right; and in the first...