You just have to put the word “book” in a title and I’m sold. So, of course, I was going to find something to love about The Bookshop, whether or not it was actually a good movie. Sadly, it’s not actually a good movie — it’s just an okay movie — but Bill Nighy and…
Generation Wealth, a new documentary about living in a material world, is so depressing, I’m still despondent over its implications weeks later. And that’s exactly why it’s important to see it.
Michael and I were looking forward to seeing Queens at La Jolla Playhouse since that’s the borough in which we both grew up in New York City. Of course, that was pretty narrow thinking since this is definitely not the same Queens we experienced. And I guess that’s the point of the play.
Leave No Trace may be my favorite movie of the year. You know how I love movies that take place in the wild, and Leave No Trace is the story of a father and daughter living contentedly in the woods until they are discovered and whisked into the bureaucracy of social services and a world…
I hate to admit it now but I was never a Mister Rogers fan. I watched Captain Kangaroo every single day and waited in vain for Miss Louise to call my name on Romper Room, but somehow the soft-spoken Mister Rogers, asking “Won’t you be my neighbor?” in his Dad sweater, just seemed a little…
