While watching Céline Sciamma's masterful Portrait of a Lady on Fire last week, I couldn’t help but think of another lady: 2017’s Lady Bird. There, writer/director Greta Gerwig painted an indelible portrait of a high-school senior often at odds with … [Continue reading]
One middle school summer, I had to write a few book reports. After thoroughly enjoying My Name Is Asher Lev, my mother encouraged me to read Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea. My Uncle Mike, a poet and English professor, pushed for it … [Continue reading]
At a certain point around the summer of 2010, I had a lot of people tell me I had an uncanny resemblance to Ryan Reynolds. At the time, people couldn’t quite remember his name. He was “that guy from The Proposal” or “That guy from Just Friends”. … [Continue reading]
One of the toughest things to learn after college is how much you have to unlearn. I don’t mean unlearning the many textbooks you crammed into your noggin, alongside the Red Hot Chili Pepper lyrics (especially that double-album) and random Jeopardy … [Continue reading]
This is one of the latest Top 10 (or 16) lists I’ve posted in the 6 years (!) I’ve been doing this. Surprisingly it’s not the latest (that honor goes to 2014 for being posted on March 6, 2015). The main reason for the delay is there’s so much I’ve … [Continue reading]