Chris Barsanti's Blog, page 102
July 31, 2017
Screening Room: ‘Detroit’
A true-crime white-knuckler set in the chaos of the 1967 Detroit riots, Detroit is playing now in limited release and will be …
July 30, 2017
Writer’s Desk: Get Fired
Even writers need money. It helps, after all, if one wants to keep the coffee pot full and the Wi-Fi …
July 28, 2017
Screening Room: ‘Ghost in the Shell’
The Scarlett Johansson live-action remake of the classic 1995 anime Ghost in the Shell hit DVD and Blu-ray this week. My …
July 23, 2017
Writer’s Desk: Do Your Thing
The great Chester Himes was born in Jefferson City, Missouri in 1909 and died in Spain in 1984. In between …
July 21, 2017
Screening Room: ‘Landline’
In the scrappy yet endearing new Jenny Slate comedy, she plays a confused twenty-something navigating family dynamics and an ugly …
July 20, 2017
Screening Room: ‘Dunkirk’
Opening this week in a big bash of a release (70mm, IMAX, the works) usually reserved for the latest Marvel …
July 16, 2017
Writer’s Desk: Write Like Westlake
Donald Westlake (1933–2008), whose birthday was last week, was one of America’s most prolific writers, publishing over a hundred novels. …
July 14, 2017
Reader’s Corner: ’10 Things I Learned About Literature from Monty Python’
My article ‘Proust, Hardy, and Spam: 10 Things I Learned About Literature from Monty Python’—including many handy and time-wasting YouTube …
July 13, 2017
TV Room: Jason Bateman’s new Missouri Noir ‘Ozark’
In the new Netflix family crime series Ozark, Jason Bateman plays a Chicago financial adviser forced to uproot his family’s entire …
July 9, 2017
Writer’s Desk: Edit Like Hemingway
Everybody knows you’re supposed to kill your darilings. But sometimes that’s easier said than done. It’s summer. Shortcuts are nice. …
