This Tuesday, January 9th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Dunkirk @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Christopher Nolan directs the one hour, forty-six minute film. Dunkirk recounts ‘the dramatic and true evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, England and France, who were cutoff and surrounded by the German Army,…
Film
Alt-Right, Film, Politics
Kylo Ren as an Alt-Right Villain?
by JOHN ADAMS •
Marykate Jasper argues Why Kylo Ren Is the Perfect Villain for the Age of the Alt-Right (some movie spoilers in her observations): Kylo is incredibly powerful, but he is also incredibly childish. When the Rebels escape him in The Force Awakens, he throws a ludicrous temper tantrum with his lightsaber. In The Last Jedi, Luke goads him by appearing…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, December 26th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, December 26th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. James Gunn directs the two hour, sixteen minute film. The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mystery of Peter Quill’s true…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, December 12th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Almost Christmas
by JOHN ADAMS •
?? This Tuesday, December 12th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Almost Christmas @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. David E. Talbert directs the one hour, fifty-one minute film. During a family’s “first Christmas gathering since their mother passed away, Dad begs the family to suspend their differences…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, November 28th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Wind River
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, November 28th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Wind River @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Taylor Sheridan directs the one hour, forty-seven minute film, in which a “veteran tracker with the Fish and Wildlife Service helps to investigate the murder of a young Native American…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, November 14th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Baby Driver
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, November 14th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Baby Driver @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail. Baby Driver is “part heist/car chase/romance/music video.”…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, October 31st, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Halloween Movie Festival
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, October 31st at 12:30 PM, it’s Halloween movie festival at Seniors in the Park with Halloween treats and movie tricks including a Mighty Mouse cartoon, a serial chapter Commando Cody “Radar Men from the Moon,” and “KONG: Skull Island.” Kong: Skull Island is a redo/update/reboot of “King Kong” with an All-Star cast of…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, October 24th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Ghostbusters (2016)
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, October 24th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Ghostbusters (2016) @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, “paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.” Paul Feig…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, October 10th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Wonder Woman
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, October 10th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Wonder Woman @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Wonder Woman (2017) tells of the famed comic book heroine: “Diana is the principled warrior-daughter of the female ruler of Paradise Island, sheltered from men and the outside world’s evils. Then,…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, September 26th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: The Shack
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, September 26th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of The Shack @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. The Shack (2017) tells of a “grieving father who is drawn to an abandoned shack, where he meets and receives counsel from a woman who calls herself Papa — the name…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, September 12th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Going in Style
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
Books, City, Culture, Film
Advocacy Seldom Reaches Chocoholics
by JOHN ADAMS •
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 •
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 •
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…