I could use a good cry. Anthony Doerr’s word-weaved masterwork, All The Light We Cannot See is being turned into a limited series by Netflix and Shawn Ley’s production company, 21 Laps (Stranger Things, Arrival). All The Light We Cannot See tells the story of six-year-old Marie-Laure LeBlanc… Image Via Giphy.com No. No relation to that LeBlanc. By the way, that meme needs to be outlawed in the dating app community. Anyway, Marie (who loves books) lives in 1934 era Paris and suffers from deteriorating eyesight along with juvenile cataracts—she’s fully blind. Her father works in the Museum of Natural History and when the …
Everyone wants to be great at something; being great means you’re not just another person. You’re different—you do things in a way that exceed the expectations placed on the average Joe. You dream, study, innovate, and work hours so long you begin to question the legality of caffeine. Perhaps along the way, you achieve the impossible, maybe even make the world a better place. The path to success, whether it be personal or professional, is loitered with risk and sometimes isolation. No one is more acquainted with the type of risk (in a not so metaphorical sense) than American rock climber …
Confucius once said,” The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.” This would lead one to believe that England was in deep shit when Emily Brontë wrote her gothic masterpiece Wuthering Heights. Not the most optimistic of tales, and definitely not propaganda for any time-travelers wanting to visit Victorian England, Heights depicts a homefront cake full of dysfunction, mental and physical illness with a supernatural cherry on top. It’s basically a version of The Bachelor where alcohol and drugs (I mean c’mon) are not readily available and Chris Harrison is clinically depressed. The story follows Heathcliff—one name— basically the original Cher, and …
If you’re like me, and the only place better than a library, or bookstore is a movie theater, then you would completely lose control of social etiquette and squeal like an owl in heat if one of your favorite characters decided to serve you popcorn. Well, that’s exactly what happened to the citizens of Jersey Saturday night when Brie Larson surprised her fans at the AMC Clifton Commons 16 in Clifton. A committee of squealing owls was lucky enough to have their opening weekend Captain Marvel experience enhanced by the woman in red, yellow and blue herself. Not only did Ms. …
Remember the montage at the beginning of Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring? We were introduced to the world of Middle Earth, the forging of the rings, and the then embodied dark lord, Sauron kicking everyone’s ass before being de-fingered by Isildur. What followed were three hours, forty-three minutes and thirty seconds of malnourished Middle Earth magic. The release of the subsequent sequels fulfilled the cinematic dreams of all Tolkienites everywhere; no more subpar animations… When Peter Jackson trolled us by ending The Return of the King multiple times within the same movie our exhaustion gave way to …
