Hope Springs features some good acting – Meryl Streep makes us understand how it might feel to be […]
Author: Chris Bord
A few years ago, I wrote the following: “[Inglourious Basterds] is certainly Quentin Tarantino’s most assured film, the […]
Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl is a dynamite psychodrama that works as a thriller (the bombshells are fantastic), a […]
I’m a sucker for pop literary time displacement stories, such as The Time Traveler’s Wife and The Post-Birthday […]
J.J. Abrams has been announced as the next director for Star Wars, which seems fitting because he’s currently […]
I’m employed by a company that expects me to work unpaid overtime – sometimes lots of it. From […]
As a lighting designer for hundreds of high school, college, community theater and regional productions over the past […]
A great biography brings its subject to new life for the reader. Peter Ames Carlin’s 474-page “Bruce” (Springsteen) […]
Part 1: Looper is a movie built on a single punchline. Some have compared it to Christopher Nolan’s […]
On December 23, 1986 I was seventeen years old. My parents had split and I was living with […]
