We’d always get together before going under ice, and though most of us had done it a dozen times or more, hypersleep still made plenty of us anxious. To relax o...
There is no princess waiting to be saved. There are no rings, rupees, or coins to collect along the way. There is no prize money. No cheerful celebration. No fu...
Ambiguity excites me when it comes to would-be lovers, any old stranger who happens to pass close enough to touch, sometimes smell, but not to pinpoin...
It’s that time of year again, when I walk to the film closet and blow off the dust of twelve months. I’m working my way through my Kubrick collection, typically...
Mario was a regular, self-employed plumber with Italian roots, an amusing, high voice, and a ludicrous mustache that somehow worked, lent just enough man to his...
On the third day of rain, I decided to buy a kayak. The water outside was only ankle-deep, but the weather forecast said there’d be ten more days of t...
Chantal knew that when Astral Projections, her local cinema, decided to showcase a Shrek event, an overnight, back to back to back to back showing of Shrek, Shr...