Oh posterity, you will never know how much it cost us to preserve your freedom.  I hope that you will make a good use of it.  It you do not, I will repent in heaven that I took half the pains to preserve it.

So speaks John Adams in the last line of the [...]

In the charming movie, Vitus, a young boy is a piano prodigy.  This becomes very important to his parents, so much so that they almost forget that he is still a young boy.  Too young to understand his gift, he wants to be a young boy.  His parents’ obsession becomes annoying,  so he fakes a [...]

Jeff Bridges gives a powerful performance, a great portrayal, not just of a failing country music artist, but of an alcoholic.
Alcohol, it is not commonly known,  chiefly blocks emotional intelligence, not intellectual intelligence.  The alcoholic over time doesn’t know what makes him sad, what makes him happy, what makes him anxious.  And we have these [...]

In the movie “I’m not there“, creative Hollywood artists who know Bob Dylan, and know of his singular importance in our time, seem to want to publicly acknowledge this fact and give tribute to Mr. Dylan, without any sign of his acknowledgment, of course.
It is curious, and very to the point, that the chosen title [...]