Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
1776 (1972) - America's Founding Fathers and the history around the creation of the Declaration of Independence are turned into a musical. The personalities and conflicts that eventually led to one of the greatest documents in American history come together in song and comedy. This is an interesting movie in many ways. Most of the... Continue Reading →
To The Vanishing Point by Alan Dean Foster (1988) - The Sonderberg family doesn't know it yet, but this isn't going to be any ordinary road trip. A quiet drive down Interstate 40 becomes a trip into an alternate reality when they pick up an unassuming hitchhiker. It turns out the family has just given a... Continue Reading →
Sophie's Choice (1982) - After World War II a young writer (Peter MacNichol) from the south arrives in New York City to follow his dream. There he meets a concentration camp survivor named Sophie (Meryl Streep) and her mercurial lover, Nathan (Kevin Kline). Stingo (MacNichol) narrates the story of the three of them. Nathan's obsession... Continue Reading →
Cooking on a Dollar Store Budget - Rekaya Gibson - When she was unemployed Rekaya Gibson needed recipes that met two criteria. First, they needed to be inexpensive because her budget was tight. Second, she wasn't ready to give up on taste in her meals. Working with ingredients that she could find at local dollar... Continue Reading →
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) - Two drag queens and a transsexual travel to the center of Australia for the chance to perform. Along the way they learn a lot about themselves and the people around them. This is regarded as a pivotal moment in the portrayal of LGBT people in... Continue Reading →
What's Eating Gilbert Grape - (1993) Gilbert is a young man with a dead end life in a dead end town in Iowa. He helps care for his morbidly obese mother (Darlene Cates), and his mentally challenged brother Arne (Leonardo DiCaprio) with his two sisters. Meanwhile a customer at the grocery store where Gilbert works... Continue Reading →
The Devil's Quota by Tom Avitabile (2014, Story Plant) - Murder isn't simple when it kills an NYPD detective's partner and drags him into a conspiracy involving the economic 1%. Detective DiMaggio follows the trail through the offices of a sexual behavior specialist and onto the international stage. On the other side of the world... Continue Reading →
The Lone Ranger (2013) - The classic western icon of the "Lone Ranger" returns to the screen as John Reid (Armie Hammer) survives an ambush that kills his brother. The killers leave him behind, believing him dead. A Comanche warrior/mystic, Tonto (Johnny Depp), finds the Ranger and joins forces with him to track down the... Continue Reading →
A Most Wanted Man (2014) - A young Chechen man arrives in Hamburg and immediately comes to the attention of the anti-terrorist forces in Germany. He will be caught up in in post-9/11 paranoia, anti-Islamic suspicions and departmental conflict while his young attorney tries to "normalize" his stay. It has been my practice here NOT... Continue Reading →
Pi (1998) - A surrealistic look at a mathematical genius in pursuit of the irrational number known as "pi" (π). Max (Sean Gullette) believes that he can unlock the very nature of the universe if he can just figure out the work abandoned by his mentor Sol (Mark Margolis). Sol gave up the quest because... Continue Reading →
Stories Are My Life 