Returning home can be challenging… A clearly distressed twenty-something guy is driving on a lonely country road when he pulls over to call his father. “Dad, it’s me.” Judging by the uncertainty in the brief exchange...
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Pauline Adamek
“Bollywood Kitchen” review
Sri Rao in the Geffen Stayhouse world premiere production of Bollywood Kitchen. Directed by Arpita Mukherjee. Photo by Kyle Rosenberg. Last Saturday night, a solo theater show with a difference made its debut as...
Film review “Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami”
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami is a fascinating documentary about a consummate performer with an idiosyncratic personality. Statuesque, with a naturally superb physique and dramatic bone structure, the Jamaican...
Geena Davis interview–The Long Kiss Goodnight
Here is my one-on-one interview with Geena Davis for The Long Kiss Goodnight, from 1996. Following a mixed reception to their first film together, Cutthroat Island, Geena Davis and husband/director Renny Harlin have...
Film review: Russian torture porn ‘Sleepless Beauty’
Although Sleepless Beauty can be considered to rest firmly in the “torture porn” category, it’s not as excruciating or gory as the Saw films. As such, it falls between two posts. A teacher, Mila...
Kurt Gardner