A feeling of paranoid nostalgia swept across me during a screening of World War Z. An hour into the movie, which I caught with my family at the Queen Ka’ahumanu Theater, someone in the audience coughed. This is not what you want to hear when the movie in question is a virus-oriented horror movie. It made me remember seeing Outbreak when I was in high school and, at the same … [Read more...] about WORLD WAR Z New Movie Review
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Talking Story With James Taylor Before His April 12 MACC Show
James Taylor seduced me when I was 16. Okay, not “seduced” exactly. It was more like an epiphany–a revelation tantamount to the one in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. I was sitting on the lawn at Irvine Meadows Amphitheater when Taylor opened the show with “Shower the People.” It was 1982, and my music collection was limited to a compilation of INXS, Duran Duran and The B-52’s. My … [Read more...] about Talking Story With James Taylor Before His April 12 MACC Show
Killing Them Softly New Movie Review
The key to any great gangster flick is to let the audience in, a quality that The Godfather and Goodfellas both have in common. Those films gave us a cluster of criminals who, despite their efficiently vile methods on the job, were family men and women who were flawed but recognizably, endearingly human. We root against them and admire them at the same time, cringing at their … [Read more...] about Killing Them Softly New Movie Review