There are stories of love and stories of adventure, but so few stories of, as our narrator notes, “fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escape...
It’s The Great Depression, and a quarter of Americans are without jobs and many left without homes. Those who hadn’t suffered great financial loss continued about the...
It seems every major genre of music falls victim to the “_____ is dead!” motto. Rock is dead! Disco is dead! Punk, no matter the attitude, couldn’t escape it, no ma...
No religion matches baseball, and there is no church as holy as that as the church of baseball. Buddha, Allah and Vishnu, after all, could never hit above .250, let alone...
The essay included with this Criterion Collection release (“By Any Means Necessary” by Eric Hynes) cites a Washington Post study that estimates around 200,000 student...
It’s the mid-1970s, just outside of Detroit, in a suburb of manicured lawns and leashed retrievers, two-story homes and driveway hoops. “Cecilia,” notes one boy, ...
“I hate these boring plays,” says a character early on. Perhaps what is on the stage may be stale to some in attendance, but what is presented in the audience is much...
The actor prepares in front of the mirror, combing his hair to perfection and moving into a well-tailored suit. But he’s not about to step before a camera. He has been ...
In an early moment in YOUNG MR. LINCOLN, the lanky, high-waisted man of his twenties stands before a small mass of citizens of New Salem, Illinois. Hands in his pocket, h...
Saturday, March 24, 1984. Shermer High School, Shermer, Illinois. Seven a.m. Detention. In THE BREAKFAST CLUB, five students–all serving time for one reason or anot...
