The last time I heard tell of an island or institution for the criminally insane it was in a Batman comic book Wouldn t you know it the Joker was on the loose again In truth the territory of insanity and mental institutions has produced some great cinematic works over the years among

This weekend I popped in on Turner Classic Movie rsquo s 30 Days of Oscar and caught the last 15 minutes of Steven Spielberg s Close Encounters of the Third Kind nbsp Have you seen it lately If not put it in your queue nbsp It holds up amazingly well This scene of the scientists trying to com

A friend of mine who works with priests with serious addictions tells me that the first thing you have to know when working with addicts who are right out of rehab is that they are going to lie to you They are going to try and charm you nbsp To me it sounded a little harsh 30 60 90 days or mo

Just returned from a preview of Book of Eli Thank you Grace Hill Media nbsp The story A superfast supersensitive Denzel Washington wanders through post-apocalyptic USA trying to shepherd the last remaining Bible to a place where it will make a difference Note to the writer the developing

The poet Peter Steele's territory of joy

The LA Times reported at 7 29 this evening that Shepard Fairey the artist associated with the now famous Obama HOPE painting has admitted that he knowingly attempted to deceive the Associated Press about which photograph he had used as a reference for the painting As the AP had originally claim

Sunday in the New York Times columnist Frank Rich added his voice to the growing number of analysts seeing little substantial change in the way politics is doing business since Barack Obama took office last January Rich s particular concern like that of Thomas Frank in the Wall Street Journal la

A Jesuit makes his way down under.

What ever happened to the sign of peace?

Last week New York Magazine published a great profile of well-known author Gay Talese who is writing a new book about his 50-year marriage to Nan A Talese a long-time publisher at Random House nbsp Talese gained particular notoriety after publishing Thy Neighbor s Wife a provocative expose on