In Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers, Bill Murray plays Don Johnston, a rich man who once made a career of “computers and girls”. As his most recent girlfriend (Julie Delpy) leaves him, he receives an anonymous letter from a former lover that reveals that he has a 19-year-old son who mayContinue Reading
When I was a young boy, one of the first albums that ever caught my interest was Live at Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash. Along with albums by The Beatles and Elvis Presley that I’d “borrowed” from my parents’ collection, that one spent a lot of time on my turntable.Continue Reading
Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis (Heath Ledger) are two young men who take a rather thankless job herding sheep through Wyoming during the summer of 1963. The job requires them to be out in the wilderness making sure as many sheep as possible make it through the summer without gettingContinue Reading
In 1991, Jack Starks, serving in Operation Desert Storm, is shot in the head. Believed to be dead, he is about to be sent home in a body-bag. He regains consciousness and is sent to a hospital. Suffering from amnesia and having no friends or family, he is sent homeContinue Reading
Carter Duryea (Topher Grace), at first glance, seems to be one of those annoying, soulless yuppies who seem to exist solely to sleaze their way up the corporate ladder. When the company he works for buys out a publishing firm, he’s promoted to the position of advertising sales manager atContinue Reading
One of last year’s big surprises come Academy Award time was the nomination of Catalina Sandino Moreno for the Best Actress statue for her work in Maria Full of Grace, a small film that made less than $7,000,000 in the United States. Although she did not win the award, herContinue Reading
Dr. Alfred Kinsey attempted to shed some light on the subject of human sexuality which, according to the film Kinsey, was considered absolutely taboo in the late 1940s. Kinsey published two books, “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male” and “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female”, in which he documented the results ofContinue Reading