Film Review: Once Upon a Time in. . . Hollywood
I just came out of a screening of Quentin Tarantino’s new movie Once Upon a Time in. . . Hollywood, which I somewhat dreaded watching as an expert on the
Film Review: Ant-Man
I’m on my way back home from the American Society ofCriminology annual meeting in Washington, DC, where I learned lots of interesting things. Such as, for example, that prison closures
Film Review: The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
The new documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution opens with the renown story of the blind men touching an elephant, and the rest of the movie shows the party,
Aquarius, Episode 12 – Spoiler Alerts
These are Hodiak, Shafe, and Walt (Hodiak’s son) sharing a beer in friendship, and toating to America, even though their fragmented and flawed understandings of what America has become pull
Aquarius, Episode 11: Spoiler Alerts
Plot-thick and sixties-thin, this episode sees Hodiak fighting for the life of his whistle-blower son by bargaining with Ken Karn. We also are exposed to more information on Manson’s deeds
Aquarius, Episode 10: Spoiler Alerts
Episode 10 is a buffet of pop psychology: everyone–Hodiak, Manson, Emma–is confronted with their parents. In Manson’s case, the mother that had abandoned him as a child returns to propose
Aquarius, Episode 9: Spoiler Alerts
Like Episode 8, Episode 9 deals with issues of race and racism within the police force, this time through the story of Joe Moran, who, unbeknownst to his wife, kids,
Aquarius, Episode 8: Spoiler Alerts
My commentary on Episodes 8 and 9 will focus, if you don’t mind, away from Manson and his antics, and on what I found more interesting: diversity within the police
Aquarius, Episode 7: Spoiler Alerts
Ken Karn is becoming an important muckety-muck in Nixon’s reelection campaign, and as such, he has to put his house in order–including emancipating his wayward daughter, Emma, who is gradually
Aquarius, Episode 6: Spoiler Alerts
Mary Bronner, pregnant in San Francisco, seems to have wizened to Manson’s manipulations; she is pregnant with his child, but is hesitant to join the family in Southern California. Manson