This Tuesday, September 12th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Going in Style @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Going in Style (2017) is a comedic crime caper in which, “desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by…
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Books, City, Culture, Film
Advocacy Seldom Reaches Chocoholics
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
A necessary element of writing or speaking – if it is to be enjoyable and sustained – is to believe what one writes or says, and to express those beliefs as one naturally would. (Even more important, of course, is to hold sound ideas, but here I’m writing about the underlying feeling of expression.) Writing…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, August 29th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: The Founder
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
This Tuesday, August 29th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of The Founder @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. The Founder (2016), is the story of Ray Kroc, “a salesman who turned two brothers’ innovative fast food eatery, McDonald’s, into the biggest restaurant business in the world with a combination of…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, August 22nd, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: The Zookeeper’s Wife
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
This Tuesday, August 22nd at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of The Zookeeper’s Wife @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. The Zookeeper’s Wife (2017), based on a true story, is set in 1939, when during the Nazi conquest of Poland the couple who run the Warsaw Zoo turn the ground’s hiding places into…
Alt-Right, America, Film, History, Liberty, Trump
Don’t Be a Sucker
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
In 1943, in the middle of the Second World War, the United States Government, fighting on both sides of the world, commissioned a short film about fascism entitled Don’t Be a Sucker. The film describes the fight in which America was embroiled in the style and vernacular of that time; it’s even more compelling to me…
City, Film
Film: Wednesday, August 16th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: The Salesman
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
This Wednesday, August 16th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of The Salesman @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. The film is the last movie in a summer series of foreign films. The Salesman (2016) is dramatic thriller recounting how, “[w]hile both participating in a production of “Death of a Salesman,” a…
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Film: Tuesday, August 8th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Live by Night
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
This Tuesday, August 8th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Live by Night @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Live by Night (2017) is a crime drama about a group of “Boston-bred gangsters who set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the…
Film, Mendacity, Putin, Russia, Sports
Film: Icarus
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
When Bryan Fogel sets out to uncover the truth about doping in sports, a chance meeting with a Russian scientist transforms his story from a personal experiment into a geopolitical thriller involving dirty urine, unexplained death and Olympic Gold-exposing the biggest scandal in sports history. Readers who have Netflix can catch Icarus, a documentary that…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, July 25th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: 20th Century Women
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
This Tuesday, July 25th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of 20th Century Women @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. 20th Century Women (2016) is a comedy-drama set in 1979 about a teenage boy, his mother, and two other women who help raise him in Southern California. Mike Mills directs the…
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Film: Wednesday, July 19th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Silence
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
This Wednesday, July 19th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Martin Scorsese’s Silence @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Silence (2017) is a historical drama about two 17th-century Portuguese Jesuits who travel to Japan in an attempt to find their mentor, who is reported to have abandoned the faith. Martin Scorsese directs…
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Film: Tuesday, July 11th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Beauty and the Beast
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
This Tuesday, July 11th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Beauty and the Beast @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Beauty and the Beast (2017) is a live-action fairy tale about a monstrous-looking prince and a young woman who fall in love. Bill Condon directs the two hour, nine-minute film, starring…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, June 27st, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Lion
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
This Tuesday, June 27th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Lion @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Lion (2016) is the story of Saroo, who “years after he got separated from his family, at a train station in India, and long since adopted by an Australian couple, decides to go…
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Film: Wednesday, June 21st, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: A Man Called Ove
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
This Wednesday, June 21st at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of A Man Called Ove @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. A Man Called Ove (2015) is a comedy-drama about “Ove, an ill-tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife’s grave, [who] has finally given up…
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Film: Tuesday, June 13th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Collateral Beauty
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
This Tuesday, June 13th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Collateral Beauty @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Collateral Beauty (2016) is a drama about Howard, who, “retreating from life after a tragedy…questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things…