Middle school is a blur to those of us who survived it, because it’s best that way. Although I try not to, I can narrowly recall that time when life was like an unceasing sequence of walls closing in on my adolescent self, sometimes hoping they would just squash me already. Understand that at this young age, even though almost every child hates their lives and dreads entering the world each new day, it’s a dirty secret they try to…
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Manchester by the Sea 2016
Grief only really ends with acceptance in a perfect world. Where each fatal incident can be assigned some sense, where all the deceased have arranged for closure with their loved ones, and where everyone knows how to communicate their own woe constructively. For anyone outside of those conditions, it seems to cling on like a leech. Manchester by the Sea, with a wise understanding of grief and tragedy, knows that things don’t happen because you want them to, or even…
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Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice 1969
In the same way that gun powder and the internet once altered the world irrevocably, so did the idea that people in relationships can communicate their feelings to each other. And just like those other inventions, it has been subject to trial and error and a whole lot of confusion ever since. My generation came up in a world where therapy, long talks at the dinner table, and the words “I feel” were already household ingredients. We may often use…
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Sideways 2004
Far beyond all of the Academy Award winning performances of the last twenty-five years—on a level above the uncanny biopics and the histrionic method roles—there is Paul Giamatti’s acting feat in Sideways. If descriptors like “modest” and “grounding” sound negative, it’s because acting has long been associated with performances that are extraordinary, flamboyant, and utterly unbelievable. But in the small section of cinema reserved for real life people, you can observe the unique power behind actors who understand what it…
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