Movies

SNAPSHOTWith over 500,000 streets cats struggling to survive in NYC, and the city unwilling to address the problem, spirited volunteers like Sassee, Claire, Stu and Tara have come to their aid. Their beat is Brooklyn, where the problem has exploded. Combing the borough’s alleys, backyards, and housing projects, they trap Continue Reading

Like most genres that have spent a fair amount of time in the cinematic sun, romantic comedies have begun to look worn, tired and more than a little wrinkled in recent years. It’s not that recent entries have been bad as such, although goodness knows some have been, but simply Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTThe original followed four strangers who meet on the road in the middle of the zombie apocalypse and, while initially at each other’s throats, they soon come to bond with each other and form a close-bonded group. Harrelson played the violent cowboy Tallahassee, Eisenberg played geeky Columbus, with Stone and Continue Reading

Much as we like to corral messy things like grief into tidy boxes and easily-understood processes, the reality is that it’s a contrary beast that pays no heed to any one’s idea of what it should be or how it should play out. How grief transpires for one person is Continue Reading

Human beings just weren’t made to be alone. John Donne knew it, Elton John knows it, and deep down, we all know that while solitude and time out is good, being permanently cut off in any kind of meaningful way from the people around us is not good for the Continue Reading

In the high school system, things divide, more or less fairly neatly, between the cool kids, the not-cool kids, and the ambivelnt Switzerland-like group in the middle who somehow manage, by some act of teenage alchemy, to be all things to all people. Of course, high school being the monstrously-complicated Continue Reading