Publications

Consequences form the center of Olvidados. José has become both prisoner and victim, torn between memories of violence and memories of his wife. His past self is now his warden, a source of torment he is unable to forget.

Details expand Difret‘s reach. It’s not just one woman's story. Instead, it’s about cooperating across generations and classes to resist injustice against women. These many points of view indicate the complications of that resistance, delivering one moving story and raising awareness of the others it does not tell.

The abandoned, empty trailer park in Sunset Edge is filled, briefly, by the interloping teens’ imaginations. And the film is a little like that, so laced through with gaps onto which we might project or own desires, and also ponder our part in the storytelling.

A review of Helicopter Mom by PopMatters intern Judy Hur.

Caryn is one of four relationship-challenged 30-somethings in "Weird Loners", a self-described “unromantic” comedy series. All four live in the same building in Queens, an arrangement established in the series premiere.

John Boorman’s new film eloquently captures this surreal experience of peacetime conscription. Queen and Country picks up the story of Bill Rohan, last seen in the closing scenes of 1987’s Hope and Glory cheering the Luftwaffe’s direct hit on his school.

Major Crimes throws together hefty dollops of self-conscious solemnity, afternoon talk show homilies and confessions, and anodyne sympathies for the underdog. The result is difficult for any actors, including the seasoned crew on hand, to make convincing.