25 Books in 2020: #4, Small Admissions Small Admissions is a charming, lighthearted novel that uses creative experiments, especially with point of view, to tell its story. Set in the uber-competitive world of New York City private school admissions, the story employs both first-person and omniscient points of view. It follows twenty-something Kate Pearson–no, not […]
100 Movies in 2020: # 15, Lost in Translation Lost in Translation is a story about an unlikely relationship between a faded movie star who comes to Japan to make liquor ads and a young woman accompanying her photographer husband on a business trip. In this film, writer and director Sofia Coppola gives a masterclass […]
100 movies in 2020: # 14, Inception Everybody makes a big fuss about Christopher Nolan. I’m the last person alive who hasn’t seen the Dark Knight films (see my earlier posts about superhero flicks in general) so I didn’t know anything about Nolan other than a serious cult attends him. I’m generally skeptical whenever a […]
