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Always Be My Maybe–Rom-Com At Its Best

Written by diana on June 22, 2019. Posted in movie reviews. 2 Comments on Always Be My Maybe–Rom-Com At Its Best

The Netflix Original Always Be My Maybe gives us a reason for watching rom-coms again. A modern riff on “When Harry Met Sally.” Set in San Francisco, Always Be My Maybe is a story of childhood sweethearts who go their separate ways only to meet up fifteen years later. Sasha Tran (Ali Wong) and Marcus Kim (Randall Park) were...

Which Way Home –Is There One?

Written by diana on June 17, 2019. Posted in movie reviews. 1 Comment on Which Way Home –Is There One?

In this gripping 2010 Academy Award nominated HBO documentary, Which Way Home opens with something large and bulbous floating down the Rio Grande. The viewer soon learns it is a corpse, perhaps that of a child, and an observer comments matter-of-factly that this happens multiple times a day. Director Rebecca Cammisa follows the...

The Hate U Give –T.H.U.G.

Written by diana on June 9, 2019. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 1 Comment on The Hate U Give –T.H.U.G.

The Hate U Give is an adaptation of Angie Thomas’s bestseller by the same name (released in February 2017). Starr Carter, a sixteen-year-old gifted student, has to adeptly maneuver between two worlds — her poor, mostly black neighborhood and a wealthy, mostly white prep school. Facing pressure from all sides,...

Burn This–Blazing Comedy on Broadway

Written by diana on May 26, 2019. Posted in Theater: plays and musicals. 3 Comments on Burn This–Blazing Comedy on Broadway

“Burn This”–a Broadway revival of a Lanford Wilson play Burn This, a revival of a 1980’s play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson, well deserves the five Tony award nominations it has received this year. The exceptional performance by Adam Driver will leave you breathless. The...

Mendocino–An Artist Haven

Written by diana on May 13, 2019. Posted in Unhealed Wound. 3 Comments on Mendocino–An Artist Haven

Mendocino County is known for its beautiful coastline, redwood forests, wineries, microbreweries and liberal attitudes towards marijuana. Also, in July of last year the Ranch Fire devastated miles near Clear Lake in Mendocino County. For my first trip there last week it was for an art workshop at the Mendocino Art Center, a...

In Order of Disappearance–Plowing through Suspense

Written by diana on April 21, 2019. Posted in movie reviews. 4 Comments on In Order of Disappearance–Plowing through Suspense

In this combination of black comedy and Nordic noir, we are treated to a series of scenes involving gangster mobs, drug trade, a father’s revenge, kidnapping, and snow plows. In Order of Disappearance is part “Fargo” and part other Coen brothers’ comedic treatment of snow country. The main character, Nils (the...