Year: 2013

“Silver Linings Playbook”–Behind Every Cloud

Written by diana on March 11, 2013. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 1 Comment on “Silver Linings Playbook”–Behind Every Cloud

The best comedies go for truths, not laughs. And, although “Silver Linings Playbook” is billed as a comedy, it is more a romance between two young adults with bipolar disorder whose families and friends have to deal with the turmoil that mental illness creates. David O. Russell, the director of this blockbuster multiple Academy Award...

“Parade’s End”–An Historian’s Downton Abbey?”

Written by diana on March 5, 2013. Posted in Television reviews, Unhealed Wound. 3 Comments on “Parade’s End”–An Historian’s Downton Abbey?”

The five-part BBC/HBO miniseries “Parade’s End” premiered on HBO last week (February 26) and is also available on video-on-demand. The playwright Tom Stoppard has adapted Ford Madox Ford’s monumental 900 page, four-novel series “Parade’s End” for television: the intellectual’s Edwardian-era...

“Water Marks”–What Lies Beneath the Surface

Written by diana on February 25, 2013. Posted in Art, Monterey Peninsula College, MPC Print Club, Printmaking, Unhealed Wound. 9 Comments on “Water Marks”–What Lies Beneath the Surface

“Water Marks”, the current exhibition at Pacific Grove Art Center (PGAC), features approximately 50 Monterey Bay area printmakers who have created etchings, woodcuts, screenprints, monotypes and mixed media prints focusing on the theme of water surrounding our beautiful Monterey peninsula. The Monterey Peninsula College (MPC)...

“Amour”– A Somber Sonnet to Love

Written by diana on February 18, 2013. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 4 Comments on “Amour”– A Somber Sonnet to Love

This year’s Cannes Film Festival winner is a film like no other on the dissolution and disintegration of life and the toll it throws at love. As a five-time Academy Award nominee, “Amour“, directed by the Austrian Michael Haneke, is a spellbinding masterpiece. The superb Jean-Louis Trintignant of “A Man and a...

“House of Cards” — A Bulimic Buffet for Couch Potatoes?

Written by diana on February 11, 2013. Posted in Television reviews, Unhealed Wound. 6 Comments on “House of Cards” — A Bulimic Buffet for Couch Potatoes?

Why wait a week to watch another episode when an entire buffet is available? A lot has been written recently about “binge-watching” the practice of sitting on the couch or in bed to gorge on an entire season or a majority of episodes of a television series in one batch. The bulimic viewer was not possible before Tivo, DVRs and Netflix video...

Following “The Following”

Written by diana on February 5, 2013. Posted in Television reviews. 2 Comments on Following “The Following”

A Fox television drama series starring Kevin Bacon and James Purefoy (the British actor who brilliantly played Marc Antony in the “Rome” series), “The Following” premiered two weeks ago (January 21). It is already gaining a fervent, mostly young audience. A furloughed FBI agent, Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon), responsible for...