Now Playing: Kisses
It’s no secret that fairy tales and dreams have a good deal in common. The action of both often rolls onward with a seeming inevitability, a certain sense of fatedness.…
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Ruth McCann
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Peter Rock is the author of seven works of fiction, most recently the novels The Shelter Cycle and My Abandonment. He lives in Portland Oregon with his wife, two fierce daughters and sweet Pit Bull.
The Rumpus Review of The Kids Are All Right
When you don’t believe that a truth is self-evident, you justify it to others. You try to explain.
TV, Briefly: Peep Show
Rarely do I laugh at people peeing themselves, which is why I’m confident that Peep Show is one of the best TV programs currently on the air. (Should I be…
The Rumpus Review of Wonderful World
Wonderful World taps the fretful zeitgeist, but trips along with freshness and humor and pleasant darkness, like Broken Flowers or Happy-Go-Lucky.
Wry Humor, Dark Wisdom, Lissome Women, Cigarettes
I think French film entices me because I know so little about French language and culture; it suggests an as-yet-unexplored world of magical, incomprehensible people.
The Rumpus Review of Bad Lieutenant
In Herzog’s non-remake of Bad Lieutenant, Nic Cage tumbles into the farthest reaches of drugged, lawless mania, resembling a coked-up Willy Wonka.