Cruz is four years younger than Damon, and both of them are about 5 years too old for these roles. I say this based on the book, which for some reason I have read twice - once because I used to be interested in literary trends, and then again because my daughter was reading it for school. Alejandra (Cruz) is supposed to be in some sort of boarding school or finishing school. Although Damon still has his boyish looks here,…

Baking bread seems like a terrible career choice for someone with only one hand.

This really didn't resonate with me. I'll blame my innate resistance to the suspension of disbelief. I was watching these actors say the lines, not really believing in these characters. John Mahoney is in half of all movies made in the late 80's and I don't understand why. Here is some kind of jaded academic who is a bit of a ladies man. It is a…

It is incredibly frustrating that this is the issue of our time. That so many people, many of them children, have been and continue to be damaged by the idea that our bodies are simply, as Mary Harrington says, "meat Lego".

These are voices that need to be heard, and they deserve more than the scant 91 minutes offered here. It seems likely that we will get a number of documentaries about this issue in the near future. Perhaps there…

So on January 7 I fled Altadena with my wife and children. By the evening of January 8 I had photographic evidence that my house and garage had been reduced to ashes. Also my 2018 Honda. Okay, there was still some metal left of the Honda, but every burnable or meltable feature was burned (to ashes) or melted. Even the license plate, it seems.

"Hi, this is ___ from ___ Insurance. I wanted to ask you some questions about your…