Category Archives: Reviews & Commentary
10 Reasons Why Muslims Can’t Be Good Americans
Yesterday an acquaintance forwarded this to me in an email. It’s a typical piece of web debris, asking you to please not delete it before you pass it on to as many of your friends as possible. So I am … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, Bible, Book of Mormon, Christian fundamentalism, Declaration of Independence, Mitt Romney, Murrah Building, Muslim fundamentalism, Qur'an, religious liberty, religious tolerance, separation of church and state, Statute of Virginia for religious freedom, The Economist, Thomas Jefferson, U.S. Constitution, Why Muslims can't be good Americans
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Lake Tahoe: The Style of Absence
There’s a lot of absence in Fernando Eimbcke’s odd but ultimately moving film Lake Tahoe. Reason, for one thing, and Plot, at least initially, as well as smooth transitions. Eimbcke simply cuts to black, sometimes staying there many seconds before … Continue reading
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Tagged absence, Diego Catano, Fernando Eimbcke, Lake Tahoe, movie style, Reviews by Richard R. Guzman, style
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Sedona, the Movie: Vortexes, Auras! Oh, My!
Sedona, Arizona, is stunningly beautiful—“The most beautiful city in America,” USA Travel called it—but also beset by an often distracting New Age loopiness. “You know what?” a local psychic tells the frazzled main character in the movie Sedona, “You need … Continue reading →