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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Ruth McCann is a writer whose work has appeared in the Village Voice and the Washington Post. She lives a nomadic life on the East Coast and tweets her feelings.
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.