Tag: Poem
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Wicked Little Letters: Primly, Properly, Profane
MOVIE INFO: A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a farcical and occasionally sinister scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, WICKED LITTLE LETTERS follows two neighbors: deeply conservative local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley). When Edith and fellow residents…
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Deadpool and Wolverine: Fighting Against and To the Metaverse
MOVIE INFO: Deadpool’s peaceful existence comes crashing down when the Time Variance Authority recruits him to help safeguard the multiverse. He soon unites with his would-be pal, Wolverine, to complete the mission and save his world from an existential threat. REVIEW: Deadpool and Wolverine works nicely when the Merch with the Mouth (Ryan Reynolds as…
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The Pond
The pond was a quarry first, a blast furnace to the colonies where trains ran across its field.“Iron Ore Bed” map points called it.It was left to the rain when it dried up.When his parents bought the land twenty- five years before he was born, the field was overgrown and the pond was weedy and…
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Living the Half Life
The drought has made July linger. The air smells of sewer booty, sweetgum, sassafras, fescue, concrete and asphalt. On this long summer day when the light and heat decide to linger— parents let their children play well into the night on the community’s green. Their laughter and the croaking of frogs in the rention pond,…
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An Almost Practical Man
I don’t know if I am a practical person. I don’t obsess over the uses of a watch.It’s enough that it tick and the hands move forward, even if I don’t.When my dog paces in front of the door I know I must walk him. When he paws my lap, I must feed him. He…
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Getting Gentler
I’m gentle with the spaces I know and walk through. Every door knobs has fingerprints. The dust and air is full of ghosts,I make them free not by removing them but tidying them up into their own wandering space,letting them tell their stories so I can joyouslytell mine in the right place, time and words.…
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Extinction
Gray wolves howl invisible on the granite shorelinewaiting for the sea’s answer-standing tall on the headland,against a wind that allows no trees,signatures the stones with ageless storms—howling to know why this once lush placewhere endless fields of poppy intertwined with pineis now defaced with crops of suburban homes.Above, a falcon startled from its rocky perch…
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Land of Bad: A Russell Crowe Almost Worth Droning on About
MOVIE INFO: Starring Russell Crowe and Liam Hemsworth, a covert Special Forces operation in the South Philippines spirals into a brutal 48-hour battle for survival. When an elite extraction team is ambushed deep in enemy territory, rookie officer Kinney (Hemsworth) is left outnumbered but determined to leave no man behind. With an air strike closing…
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Young Woman and the Sea: Swimming through Rough and Familiar Waters
MOVIE INFO: Daisy Ridley stars as the accomplished swimmer who was born to immigrant parents in New York City in 1905. Through the steadfast support of her older sister and supportive trainers, she overcame adversity and the animosity of a patriarchal society to rise through the ranks of the Olympic swimming team and complete the…
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Love Lies Bleeding: K Stew Finds Crazy Love
MOVIE INFO: Director Rose Glass comes an electric new love story; reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family. REVIEW: I like it when Kristen Stewart’s acting…
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Twisters: Getting Past the Past
MOVIE INFO: Daisy Edgar-Jones stars as Kate Cooper, a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi (Golden Globe nominee Anthony Ramos, In the…
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On Wonder
When I look at the sky its blueness mixes and cycles with thunder, lightning and rain.I notice, the vulture, content to feast on leftovers of once beautiful things, fly with the same majesty of the hawk.At night, I see the stars burn bright and smell the rain’s petrichor snake off the worn sides of Racoon…
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The Cleansing Cycle
i like to cling to the grimethe small grit of my father’s ashesunderneath my fingernails, the part of him that refused to fall to the rocks in the scatteringmy mother’s scented oil in her hair,her burning fat seasoning in the skilletstinging my nostrils and eyes leaving me seeing smelling less than my faultering earshis ash…
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The Long Game : Raising the Game for Minority Equality
MOVIE INFO: In 1956, JB Peña and his wife moved to the small town of Del Rio, TX, partly for a job as a school superintendent, but mostly to fulfill JB’s dream of joining the prestigious, all-white Del Rio Country Club. So when JB is rejected on the basis of his skin color, he is…
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Etheria Film Night 2024 on Shudder: 9 Horror Shorts by Women Directors
MOVIE INFO: The 2024 edition of world’s best showcase of new horror, sci-fi, and fantasy directed by women is here! Enjoy these joyously bizarre tales of terror, comedy, and surreal pizza gods. Films directed by Jillian Corsie, Sarah Wisner, Sean Temple, Annie Girard, Diana Wright, Faye Jackson, Sofie Somoroff, Talia Shea Levin, Grace Rex, Kelsey…
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Scrambled: A Sharp Tongue, Soft Belly Fertility Comedy
MOVIE INFO: Quintessential eternal bridesmaid Nellie Robinson (Leah McKendrick) constantly finds herself between weddings, baby showers, and bad dates. When she begins to feel like the clock is ticking and is faced with bleak romantic prospects, Nellie decides to freeze her eggs — setting her on an empowering journey to a brave new world where…
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The Neon Highway: Traveling the Road of Broken Dreams on the Old Country Road
MOVIE INFO: When singer-songwriter Wayne meets washed-up country music legend Claude, the two head back to Nashville for a second chance. REVIEW: Beau Bridges wants to upstage the success of old brother Jeff’s Oscar winning success from Crazy Heart, where he played a fading country music star trying to make a comeback. Beau plays the…
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Arcadian: The Kids Get All the Breaks
MOVIE INFO: In a near future, life on Earth has been decimated. Paul (Nicolas Cage) and his twin teenage sons, Thomas (Jaeden Martell) and Joseph (Maxwell Jenkins), have been living a half-life — tranquility by day and torment by night. When the sun sets, ferocious creatures of the night awaken and consume all living souls…
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Fly Me to the Moon: Faking It Until You Make It.
MOVIE INFO: Starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, Fly Me To The Moon is a sharp, stylish romantic comedy set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing. Brought in to fix NASA’s public image, sparks fly in all directions as marketing maven Kelly Jones (Johansson) wreaks havoc on launch director Cole…
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The Monk and the Gun: A Political Fable of Knowing Shangra-La
MOVIE INFO: An American travels into Bhutan in search of a valuable antique rifle and crosses paths with a young monk who wanders through the serene mountains, instructed by his teacher to make things right again. REVIEW: The Monk and the Gun is a Buddhist comedy about knowing and doing the right thing in the…
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Lullaby of Mother and New Born Child Abandoned in the Night
The Hudson sleepsand the clouds sweep over the moon. I promise little dearwith this small tear I will always love you.Sleep, sleep, sleeppeace, peace, peacethe promise I grant you. This song is the factthat your star remains intactin my heart, steady and true.The river’s lull,the moons’s full glowwill always pull us through.The path will be…
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The Fruits of My Labors
I hate mowing the lawn,hate the way it sends chinch bugsflying to the stars after the rain.In my dreams, however, I have lots of land,and delight in sculpting neat parallel rowswith my tractor- over and over, on and on,aerating the start of warrens and burrows for rabbits and woodchucks to finish their tunnels, for deer…
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Paying the Killers
My wife hears the weed man outside spraying the lawn.The next day it’s the pest control guy doing the foundation.He doesn’t come into the house to spray each room anymore. Just doing the outside is enough to keep the bugs away,says the pamphlet he leaves at the top of the steps.My wife comes from the…
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Back to Black: Sid and Nancy Redux
MOVIE INFO: The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame and the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black. Told from Amy’s perspective and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film follows the remarkable woman behind the phenomenon and the tumultuous relationship at the center of one of the most legendary…
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Invitatory
The birds sing of hungerthrough the pillars of lights that render the sky into beingthe great crease of You stumblingthrough onto my bedclotheskindling the room once morewith the face of peace found-outsatiating my starvation with the lamb’s diminutive thorna whole world waiting for Your Yes Author’s note: I usually start my mornings in prayer, asking…
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Ready!
The pain is gone and I am ready to write about everything beyond the fear,ready to bite into the muscle and bone of the world,to put away the dagger phrase,all the losses of my life,ready to live in hope’s recesses.I am poet enough to make you taste this hidden fruit,see beyond all the sutured sunsets…
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This Old House Knows Me Well
This old house painted in faded pride knows me well. I did not learn to walk here,but I did learn to leap- and do it mightily.The old dishes have been broken or thrown away,replaced by new ones with new owners. The taps stiff with old age and rust, surely have been replaced.The comfortable chairs, the…
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The Imaginary: The Case for Child Imagination for Life
MOVIE INFO: Rudger is a boy no one can see, imagined by Amanda to share her thrilling make-believe adventures. But when Rudger, suddenly alone, arrives at The Town of Imaginaries, where forgotten Imaginaries live and find work, he faces a mysterious threat. REVIEW: Imaginary friends are having a renaissance. If , released a few months …
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Despicable Me 4: Minions All The Way
MOVIE INFO: In the first Despicable Me movie in seven years, Gru, the world’s favorite supervillain-turned-Anti-Villain League-agent, returns for an exciting, bold new era of Minions mayhem in Illumination’s Despicable Me 4. Following the 2022 summer blockbuster phenomenon of Illumination’s Minions: The Rise of Gru, which earned almost $1 billion worldwide, the biggest global animated…
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This Closeness: Fighting Through the Scrim of Life
MOVIE INFO: Tensions rise when a couple stays at the home of a reclusive host, with the three entering an intimate battle to gain and regain territory. REVIEW: I was expecting This Closeness, a film about a couple who rent an Airbnb apartment they have to share with the current shy and nerdy tenant for…
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Space Cadet: NASA Certified Legally Blonde
MOVIE INFO: Rex, a Florida party girl, turns out to be the only hope for the NASA space program after a fluke puts her in training with other candidates who may have better resumés, but don’t have her smarts, heart, and moxie. REVIEW: The pitch for Space Cadet must have mentioned that it was Legally…
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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F: Getting Old With Style
MOVIE INFO: Detective Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) is back on the beat in Beverly Hills. After his daughter’s life is threatened, she (Taylour Paige) and Foley team up with a new partner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and old pals Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and John Taggart (John Ashton) to turn up the heat and uncover a conspiracy.…
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Sometimes I Think About Dying: Getting Around to Feels
MOVIE INFO: Lost on the dreary Oregon coast, Fran finds solace in her cubicle, listening to the constant hum of officemates and occasionally daydreaming to pass the time. She is ghosting through life, unable to pop her bubble of isolation, when a friendly new coworker, Robert, persistently tries to connect with her. Though it goes…
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Marmalade: Bonnie and Clyde with a Twist
MOVIE INFO: MARMALADE is an edge-of-the-seat crime-tinged romance tale. Recently incarcerated Baron (Joe Keery) strikes up a friendship with cellmate Otis (Aldis Hodge), a man with a well-versed history of prison breaks. As the pair hatch an escape plan together, Baron recalls the story of how he met Marmalade (Camila Morrone), the love of his…
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Bleeding Love: Real Life Father and Daughter Dealing with Their Cinematic Story
MOVIE INFO: After a drastic incident in her life, a young woman (Clara McGregor) embarks on an impromptu road trip with her estranged father (Ewan McGregor). En route to their destination of Santa Fe, New Mexico, the two are forced to confront the issues of their past that have led to their frail relationship, while…
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Problemista: She’s a Real Problem.
MOVIE INFO: Alejandro (Julio Torres) is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs out, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast (Tilda Swinton) becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream.…
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A Quiet Place: Day One: A Family Needs a Pet to Work
MOVIE INFO: Experience the day the world went quiet. REVIEW: Every family needs a pet to make it seem complete. In A Quiet Place Day One, a movie where silence is both golden and a survival necessity, that animal can only be a cat, the only nonhuman creature that won’t scream or move a muscle…
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Chattanooga FF: A Guide to Becoming an Elm Tree: Respecting the Grief of Folklore…..
MOVIE INFO: Padraig (James Healy-Meaney), is a lonely and grief-stricken man who seeks the help of a mysterious carpenter names John (Gerry Wade), to help him build a coffin for his already dead and buried wife. REVIEW: I don’t mind slow films that take their time to tell their story fully visually, especially ones like…
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Chattanooga FF: CANVAS: Sibling Rivalry as Revenge Art
MOVIE NFO EVE, a reclusive, wealthy and disgraced former child-prodigy artist, longs to repair the broken relationship with her sister, MARISSA, a successful yet currently insolvent painter. Largely estranged since their father’s suicide decades ago, Eve efforts to draw Marissa back in by announcing her plan to donate three highly valuable paintings to a meager…
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Chattanooga FF: The Wheel of Heaven: Getting the Circle Game
MOVIE NFO A woman caught up in predatory relationships is thrown into a multi-layered world of choices after she discovers a mystical book in a thrift store. REVIEW: The Kentucky Fried Movie, a skit movie made in 1977, was a guilty pleasure of mine when I was a bored and lonely college student. It was…
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Chattanooga FF: Sweet Relief: Getting Through It Is the Relief
MOVIE NFO A woman’s dangerous inclinations, a sadistic child killer, and a panic surrounding an online murder challenge reveal the insidious violence of a small New England town. REVIEW: Sweet Relief has a good beginning and ending but a miserable middle. It’s a horror film about the disaffection of the online generation. Yet, most of…
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Chattanooga FF: Off Ramp: Getting to True Juggalo
MOVIE INFO: A couple of lovable, degenerate Juggalos must sojourn through America’s hellish underbelly to The Gathering of the Juggalos, the one place on earth they feel accepted REVIEW: What makes Off Ramp so enjoyable to watch is its twisted take on Deliverance, the backwood revenge story that features every racist hillbilly assumption and stereotype. …
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Someone Dies!: Forgets How Weird this Can Be
MOVIE INFO: REVIEW: Someone Dies! blends dark comedy with the crime and sci-fi genre. It’s a cheap one set flick that takes place inside an apartment. Detective Jim Jenkins (Joseph Graham) has a problem: he has received a note informing him that his daughter has been kidnapped. In order to get her back, he must…
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Chattanooga FF: Quantum Suicide: The Infinite Possibilities of Going Crazy and Dying
MOVIE NFO A lone physicist builds a particle accelerator in his garage and embarks on a quest to understand the nature of reality. REVIEW: Quantum Suicide involves the possibilities of death by a gun pointed at your head gong off if rigged to a computer system, a particle accelerator and if life or death is…
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Chattanooga FF: Noclip: Being Dumbass in Liminal Spaces
MOVIE INFO: Two filmmakers set out on an adventure into a creepy old mall, only to find themselves lost in an increasingly claustrophobic maze of hallways, liminal spaces, stairwells and backrooms in this comedic found footage horror film. REVIEW: Mall corridors can be spooky places if you are getting lost in them. I have anxiety…
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Chattanooga FF: Love and Work: An Anti Slacker Comedy
MOVIE INFO: Diane and Fox love to work. Unfortunately, they live in a polarized world where having a job is illegal. REVIEW: Love and Work is an anti-slacker comedy about people who want to and love to work in a society that bans it. It’s a one note film that is spot on about its…
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Chattanooga FF: The Lonely Man with a Ghost Machine: The Imperfect Grief that Haunts Us
MOVIE INFO: The last man on Earth after a global catastrophe finds himself questioning his purpose and sanity as both his dead wife and a mysterious stranger confront him with his past, his present, and whatever future might remain in the wastes of a dead world. REVIEW: The director, Graham Skipper’s The Lonely Man with…
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Chattanooga FF: Cannibal Mukbang: Eating Human Life and Relationships
MOVIE INFO: Shy and looking for love, a man becomes smitten with an outgoing and mysterious woman, who, much to his surprise, reciprocates the attraction. As his feelings for her intensify, so does his unexpected submersion into the woman’s biggest fixation: the wild world of mukbanging. And with it, lots of bloodshed. REVIEW: The poster…
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Chattanooga FF: Daughter of the Sun: Getting to Malick
MOVIE INFO: A 12-year-old girl lives life on the run alongside her father who has Tourette Syndrome. Desperately seeking a normal family life, she befriends a group of outcasts who want to harness a volatile supernatural power her father is hiding. REVIEW: Daughter of the Sun , a fantasy drama about a daughter and her…
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Chattanooga FF:: The Buildout : A Story of Grief from a Young Director Trying to Find Himself
MOVIE INFO: friendship is tested as two women experience something strange in the desert. REVIEW: The Buildout, the first feature film debut of director and writer Zeshaan Yonnus is neither a horror film nor drama with tinges of sci-fi, but a somewhat shakey combination of the two. It tries to bridge the gap between found…
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Mother, May I?: Sons and Mothers and Fiancées, Oh My
MOVIE INFO: Emmett wants to clean and flip his recently deceased mother’s house: get in, get out, and avoid any trauma still lingering from when she abandoned him as a young child. Anya, his fiancé, see’s this as an opportunity to finally force Emmett to deal with his trauma because she believes it is preventing…
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Monster: A Multi-headed Evil
MOVIE INFO: When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what’s going on. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and child, the truth gradually emerges. REVIEW: There…
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Origin: Trying to Get Beyond Just Black and White
MOVIE INFO: While grappling with tremendous personal tragedy, Isabel sets herself on a path of global investigation and discovery. Despite the colossal scope of her project, she finds beauty and bravery while crafting one of the defining American books of our time REVIEW: Origin is Ava DuVernay’s ambitious adaptation of Caste, former New York Times…
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Ultraman: Rising: Kaiju Rearing for Estranged Families
MOVIE INFO: With Tokyo under siege from rising monster attacks, baseball star Ken Sato reluctantly returns home to take on the mantle of Ultraman. But the titanic superhero meets his match when he is forced to adopt a 35-foot-tall, fire-breathing baby kaiju. Sato must rise above his ego to balance work and parenthood while protecting…
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Marriage
After his deep illness was over he laid his body on hers—the length of his body on hers—all the sleepings, awakenings,fights, teacup and coffee mornings,their talks about everything and nothing,the plummets, the joyous-awkward silences—and with a tear, she beared his weight— until it was gone.
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The Things Is…
(after Ellen Bass)The trick is to love life,even when you have no stomach for it-even when your life crumbles to burnt paperin your hands- your throat choking in its ashes,embers turned tearing diamonds,weighing you down in grief’s obesity. “How can a body withstand this?”you will ask, cradling your facein your palms- your ordinary facenow, no…
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Housekeeping for Beginners: No Daddy Nearest
MOVIE INFO: From acclaimed filmmaker Goran Stolevski comes a story exploring the universal truths of family, both the ones we’re born into and the ones we find for ourselves. Dita never wanted to be a mother, but circumstances force her to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters, tiny troublemaker Mia and rebellious teen Vanesa. A battle…
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Dad and Step-Dad: A Comedy Where Even the Kid is Just an Overgrown Adult
MOVIE INFO: Jim and Dave, a dad and a step-dad, have trouble bonding during a 3-day weekend upstate with their son, Branson. REVIEW: Jim (Colin Burgess) and Dave (Anthony Obereck) are the titled Dad and Step-dad who are both desperate for validation with the 13-year-old child in their care. The child, Branson a lumbering bear…
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Inside Out 2: Gettng All the Feels and More
MOVIE INFO: The little voices inside Riley’s head know her inside and out–but next summer, everything changes when Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2 introduces a new Emotion: Anxiety. REVIEW: Anxiety (Maya Hawke) crashes the picture and takes over all other feelings in Inside Out 2, perhaps the most literal, emotionally speaking, of any Pixar…
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ISS: Getting Beyond Earth’s Nuclear Reality
MOVIE INFO: Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a worldwide conflict breaks out on Earth. Reeling from this, the astronauts receive orders from the ground: take control of the station by any means necessary. REVIEW: Balance is needed to reset allegories of war and peace, oxymoronic harmonious discord in…
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American Sonnet for My Roomba Soul.
I am old and have seen so many dawns that their beauty has no wonder.You see, my God doesn’t need to be perfect- just right more times than not, and not repeat his/hers/its creations so much, for me to be totally happy.The only thing that still amazes me is that I can navigate the dark…
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North of Normal: Living through Bad Parenting
MOVIE INFO: NORTH OF NORMAL follows writer Cea Sunrise Person’s unconventional childhood in the wilderness, her complicated relationship with her perpetually pot-smoking teen mom, and her incredible path to a version of normalcy. REVIEW: The Hippie movement gets an even handed judgement through both childhood and young adult eyes in Carly’s Stone film adaptation of…
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Oracles
My grandmother was my oracle, speaking stained insights in a Spanish I hardly understood at the time. My offerings were small but true: kisses, hugs, “I love you” on paper scraps translated by my mother for her knowing. It was as if I had written them in blood and it became a forever tattoo of…
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Hit Man: Richard Linklater’s Identity Crisis
MOVE INFO: Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater’s sunlit neo-noir stars Glen Powell as strait-laced professor Gary Johnson, who moonlights as a fake hit man for the New Orleans Police Department. Preternaturally gifted at inhabiting different guises and personalities to catch hapless people hoping to bump off their enemies, Gary descends into morally dubious territory when he…
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Bad Boys: Ride or Die: Hopefully, Their Last Ride
MOVIE INFO: This Summer, the world’s favorite Bad Boys are back with their iconic mix of edge-of-your seat action and outrageous comedy but this time with a twist: Miami’s finest are now on the run. REVIEW: The Bad Boys franchise has been pretty hit and miss for me, mostly miss. The last one, was a…
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Am I Ok?: Growing Up Not So Well in Your 30’s
MOVIE INFO: Lucy and Jane have been best friends for most of their lives and think they know everything there is to know about each other. But when Jane announces that she’s moving from LA to London for a job, Lucy reveals a deeply buried, long-held secret. As Jane tries to help Lucy sort through…
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Under Paris: A Shark Movie Worthy of Its “Jaws”
MOVIE INFO: To save Paris from a bloodbath, a grieving scientist is forced to face her tragic past when a giant shark appears in the Seine. REVIEW: Under Paris, a Jaws imitator that takes place in the Seine, comes just in time for the Paris Summer Olympics. It’s a macabre tourist ad more likely to…
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The Path
I come to the creek path near my house, the one my wife doesn’t like me to walk alone, for fear I might fall. I see mountain bikes riding through, a leashed triplets of dogs of Goldilock sizes their caregiver behind, struggling to contain their strides.My husky-chi barks at them, underneath a low growl in…
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Unidentified Objects: Road Trip Encounters of the Third Kind
MOVIE INFO: Peter is a misanthropic dwarf hiding from the world in his shabby New York City apartment. But an unexpected visit from his upbeat–and possibly unhinged–neighbor Winona forces him out of his shell and onto an impromptu road trip. Their destination? What she believes to be the site of an upcoming alien visitation in…
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T.I.M.: All for the Codex of Love
MOVIE INFO: An engineer begins work on her company’s latest product, an A.I. humanoid called T.I.M. — Technologically. Integrated. Manservant. Things take a turn for the worse when T.I.M.’s servient programming leads to a dangerous obsession with her. REVIEW: A.I. and robots in movie have gone bad for a while now. T.I.M. (Technology Integrated Manservant)…
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Gasoline Rainbow: A Gen Z Road Movie
MOVIE INFO: Celebrated directorial duo the Ross Brothers (Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets and Contemporary Color) turn their pioneering hybrid approach to the cinematic road trip with GASOLINE RAINBOW. Undoubtedly candid yet deeply loving, this is an expansive portrait of the new generation as told in their own words. With high school in the rearview, five…
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Ezra: Autism- All in the Family
MOVIE INFO: EZRA follows Max Bernal (Bobby Cannavale), a stand-up comedian living with his father (Robert De Niro), while struggling to co-parent his autistic son Ezra (introducing William Fitzgerald) with his ex-wife (Rose Byrne). When forced to confront difficult decisions about their son’s future, Max and Ezra embark on a cross-country road trip that has…
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The First Omen: A Worthy Predecessor to the Devil.
MOVIE INFO: When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate. REVIEW: I don’t remember too much of 1976’s…
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Rollercoaster
When I was young I use to workout my death every time I rode a rollercoaster.I would give myself a glittery gold stickerfor not giving into the fear of the ascent,another if I did not pukeon the first big drop,three if I didn’t fall out raising my hands on turns.I would walk off feeling dizzywith…
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Sonder
I watch my shadow disentangle from the light to plead for its life with the oak’s penumbra and the rising sun, the stride of leashed dogs, bicycle wheels and othersilhouettes, evaporating in the park’s heat. In the artificial lake beyond, a one-man sculls theunobscured water, its paddles leaving clear streams behind.Five strokes later the craft…
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One Life: The Other Schindler’s List
MOVIE INFO: Based on the book If It’s Not Impossible…: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton, ONE LIFE tells the incredible, emotional true story of Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton (Johnny Flynn), a young London broker who visits Prague in December 1938. In a race against time, Winton convinces Trevor Chadwick (Alex Sharp) and…
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga: George Miller Strives for Some Poetic Tragedy Amongst the Road Warrior Wasteland
MOVIE INFO: Snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers, young Furiosa falls into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel, presided over by the Immortan Joe. As the two tyrants fight for dominance, Furiosa soon finds herself in a nonstop…
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Atlas: J Lo Shrugged
MOVIE INFO: A brilliant data analyst with a deep distrust of AI finds it may be her only hope when a mission to capture a renegade robot goes awry. REVIEW: With Jennifer Lopez alone in an A.I. mech suit for most of her sci-fi flick Atlas, it’s not a big surprise that the story writers…
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Garfield: The Movie: Too Busy for this Lazy Cat
MOVIE INFO: Garfield (voiced by Chris Pratt), the world-famous, Monday-hating, lasagna-loving indoor cat, is about to have a wild outdoor adventure! After an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father — scruffy street cat Vic (voiced by Samuel L. Jackson) — Garfield and his canine friend Odie are forced from their perfectly pampered life into joining…
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Sentinel: Stealing Some Alien and Terminator Is Bound to Bite this Hack Sci-Fi Flick in the Ass
MOVIE INFO: In 2155, through a multi-dimensional portal, an alien invasion annihilates nearly the entire human race. Some of the people who manage to survive are miners hidden on the dark side of the moon. Years after the invasion, and with the use of new technology, three soldiers are sent back to Earth. Their plan…
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Fading Dreams of a Summer Nymph
jump off the rotting pierfloat face down in the lakeyour arms and legs spread far from your torsohold your breath and drift in the sun swirl near the edges under the tree canopiesuntil you feel the stones of others trying to prod you awakethey will watch you water dripping down your hair face necka beautiful…
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The Infinite Blue
the sky reflects my solitudeeverything above methe witness of my beingand things I left behind s. i. l. e. n. t. c. a. r. e. l. e. s. s.
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Blackbird, Blackbird, BlackBerry: Finding A Desperate Love in Middle Age Loneliness
MOVIE INFO: Etero, a 48-year-old woman living in a small village in Georgia, has chosen to remain unmarried. She cherishes her freedom, as much as her cakes. Her choice to live alone is often the cause of gossip among her fellow villagers. Unexpectedly, she finds herself falling into a passion with a man and is…
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Olive Trees
One day, a man with his little boyin a wagon rested under the shady branches of an olive tree.They ate cheese and bread and when they were done they picked olives. When the sacks were full and they grew tired, they slept under the wagon.In the morning they noticed that the earth below themsparkled and…
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Wrack Line
I stay behind the wrack line, alone and ancient,only knowing the stillness my wounded feet allow. A Laughing Gull is revering the border left by the tide.Pass, the mate, thumbs its long bill through the leavings:dried kelp stripped of Brittle Stars, bottle caps, broken glass becoming now fine and deadly sand, mangrove twigs, unstraightened, eaten…
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The Last Stop in Yuma County: A Nihilist Lark that Homages the 30th Anniversary of the Trantino Style
MOVIE INFO: While awaiting the next fuel truck at a middle-of-nowhere Arizona rest stop, a traveling young knife salesman is thrust into a high-stakes hostage situation by the arrival of two similarly stranded bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty–or cold, hard steel–to protect their bloodstained, ill-begotten fortune. REVIEW: Last Stop in Yuma County…
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Birth/Rebirth: The Joys and Horrors of Co-Parenting a Reanimated Child
MOVIE INFO: Rose (Marin Ireland) is a pathologist who prefers working with corpses over social interaction. She also has an obsession — the reanimation of the dead. Celie (Judy Reyes) is a maternity nurse who has built her life around her bouncy, chatterbox six-year-old daughter, Lila (A.J. Lister). When one tragic night, Lila suddenly falls…
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If: Maybe We All Need Just An Other Sixth Sense
MOVIE INFO: From writer and director John Krasinski, IF is about a girl who discovers that she can see everyone’s imaginary friends — and what she does with that superpower — as she embarks on a magical adventure to reconnect forgotten IFs with their kids. REVIEW: IF has a lot of invisible beings being seen…
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Another Night’s Peace
(after Solomon ibn Gabirol) https://poets.org/poet/solomon-ibn-gabirolA pure heart in the moon’s smilethe heavens show their peace—another night’s rests from the mischance and mischievous love of moon and tide—the storm’s mantle that covers the moonand presses clouds and streams to burst—and pretenses luna’s death beyond the clouds,the mind’s falling, the soul’s weeping in the lie there is…
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Lost Words Still Unspoken
I’m at that age where death occurs regularlyenough that too many things are left unspoken—in the fall of life grief has unburdened their meanings. Animals know the definition of winds and rainsdescending mountain slopes and plush valleybut I know no mortal words for this silence.I hear it in the song of birds, see it in…
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Madame Web: Gets Stuck in Its Spidey Sense
MOVIE INFO: In a switch from the typical genre, Madame Web tells the standalone origin story of one of Marvel publishing’s most enigmatic heroines. The suspense-driven thriller stars Dakota Johnson as Cassandra Webb, a paramedic in Manhattan who develops the power to see the future… and realizes she can use that insight to change it.…
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Eileen: Sudden Fire, Sudden Danger
MOVIE INFO: Eileen is a peculiar young woman — aloof and unfazed by the gloomy nature of her job at the local youth prison. But something in her changes the day that the new counsellor, Dr. Rebecca St. John arrives. She is instantly captivated by Rebecca’s glamorous, enigmatic presence. As the two women grow closer,…
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Biosphere: A Buddy Romcom for the End of the World
MOVIE INFO: In the not-too-distant future, the last two men on earth must adapt and evolve to save humanity. REVIEW: Biosphere is a buddy film, rom-com and an end of the world (and I’m feeling fine) flick. Billy (Mark Duplass) and Ray (Sterling K. Brown) have been black and white decade long buds. The world…
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes: Noa’s Arch
MOVIE INFO: Director Wes Ball breathes new life into the global, epic franchise set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a…
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Lightness of Age
In the moonlight, with grace and style. the old folks start their first time dance.Young, they watched winged flight, felt the warble with delight. In the patient beat of time, knew the stepof the meadow’s light.Now, snowflakes later, they finally dance with the wind, this special harvest night.
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Kiss the Future: Bono Gets the Compensatory Noble Peace Prize
MOVIE INFO: KISS THE FUTURE, directed by Nenad Cicin-Sain, story by Bill Carter and Cicin-Sain, screenplay by Carter, based on his memoir: “Fools Rush In,” is the story of defiance amid the 1990s siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. The film focuses on a vibrant underground community who used music and art to effect…
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An Old Cold Wives’ Tale
His wife turned cold. He touched her,hoping to die, at the least, maybe sleep. He did not die and he still could not sleep.Her coldness did not dry him out inside. He looked outside and noticed the street littered with other cold wives, demon hands holding them down in a web of rootssprouting from the…
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We only name the heartbeats shared
Alike heartbeats are called out in the evenings radiance:a slouch of bears awakening from a long slumber into the rising spring- the receding snow bringing the feast of a winter’s kill, memories of honeyed searches.a host of house sparrows creating nests in the corner eavesof every Elm Street roof, far away from the doors of…
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Mean Spirited: A Horror Comedy That Tries to Possess the Audience’s Attention Span
MOVIE INFO: SynopsisWhen two estranged friends reconnect, things buried deep down are bound to surface. Wannabe famous vlogger Andrew Castellano sets off for a weekend at the mountain cottage of his former friend-turned famous actor Bryce. Andy has decided to bury the hatchet, but he isn’t quite himself anymore. REVIEW: Co-writer/director/star Jeff Ryan goes to…
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Transporting Fragile Materials
Today was the day to dispossess all the possessions in her room.I take measurement after measurement, only making things ghostlier.She was never one for order, or for keeping stuff in one place, holding on to these impressions until thinkings end, and the lights went out.Preserving this was her joy, all these fragile materialsshe held on…