The Laundromat ~ I can’t tell yet if it’s because Steven Soderbergh is such a talented director that he brings out the best in his cast, or whether it’s because top talent like Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas and Meryl Streep, freed of hype machine and blockbuster expectations (although a nominee …
Growing up we Boomers witnessed the advent of television while being weaned on movies that presented a simplistic, almost childlike, image of what frontier life was like in the American West. The lines were starkly drawn: there were White Hats (the good guys), Black Hats (the bad guys), a saloon …
The Eighties and Nineties saw a frenzy of prosecutions across the country of day care center operators accused of sexually abusing children in their care, the most infamous being the McMartin family of Manhattan Beach, California. In a 2003 book I just ran across in a thrift store, No Crueler …
