Directed by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith (First Run Features, 2009) Plato believed some stories need to be told over and over, fed to our children like...
Author - Patrick McCormick
Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities By Martha Nussbaum (Princeton University Press, 2010) In an age of globalization, governments and...
Directed by Lee Unkrich (Disney/Pixar, 2010) In the third chapter of Pixar’s saga about a boy’s toys, the plastic and wooden playthings that fill...
Directed by Niels Arden Oplev (Music Box Films, 2009) Fans of the late Stieg Larsson’s crime trilogy (a dark Harry Potter for adult murder mystery fans) will...
Babies directed by Thomas Balmés (Focus Features, 2010) French filmmaker Thomas Balmés had a simple and brilliant idea: Put four babies in...
The Green Zone Directed by Paul Greengrass (Universal Pictures, 2010) The Greek dramatist Aeschylus wrote, "In war, truth is the first casualty." But...
Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire Directed by Lee Daniels (Lionsgate, 2009) Black is beautiful. Black, obese, poor, functionally illiterate...
Stories about Queen Elizabeth I make extraordinary drama because her reign shattered the patriarchal myth that ruling a kingdom was a man's job. But...
Up in the Air directed by Jason Reitman (Paramount Pictures, 2009) The most unbelievable thing about Jason Reitman's slick black comedy is that there...
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits By Linda Gordon (W. W. Norton & Company, 2009) In the 1930s President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Farm...
