Film Review: Long Movie for Short Ride
The rules of Professional Bull Riding, I have recently learned, involve staying on a bull for eight seconds, while holding on with one hand. Creating a feature film about an…
Some Other Things I’ve Written Lately
Here are some other things I've written lately: A look at the creation of Japanese kumiko, featured in this year's Smithsonian Craft Show, for Smithsonian Magazine online. A review of…
And Some Recent Stage Reviews Around D.C.
Here are links to some of the theater reviews I've done so far this year for Broadway World: A first rate "Uncle Vanya" starring Hugh Bonneville and John Benjamin Hickey,…
Film Review: ‘The Zebra and The Bear’
“The Zebra and the Bear” sounds like a nature film, but in this case the zebra represents someone with a rare disease and the bear is the protective mama who…
Film Review: ‘The King of Kings,’ Cartoon Jesus
About the time he was creating the crowd-pleasing “David Copperfield,” Charles Dickens was writing a book meant for a much smaller audience — his children. “The Life of Our Lord,”…
The Vigilante Movie Returns: ‘Shooting Heroin’
The vigilante film was at its heights as a genre a half century ago with ugly crowd-pleasers like the Charles Bronson franchise “Death Wish.” But it can be traced back…
Movie Review: ‘Saint Nick of Bethlehem’
It’s been more than a month since Christmas, but they were sending around an indie film called “Saint Nick of Bethlehem” for reviews. Maybe because it would have been lost…
Movie Review: ‘King Saud,’ Worst of Year?
Writing at the end of the year, I can safely say I won’t see a worse film this year than “King Saud,” a clumsy, blood-soaked stumble through world problems through…
When Jimmy Carter Came to the Theater
I never met Jimmy Carter, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning former President who died Sunday at 100. But I was at Arena Stage in D.C. for the premiere of a play…
Some Other Things I Wrote This Year
Here are some of the things I've written over the last eight months that hadn't otherwise appeared on this blog. An interview with Damon Wayans, pictured here, about his new…