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I recently finished watching the new(ish) adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story, “Young Sherlock.” Hero Fiennes Tiffin plays young Sherlock and Dónal Finn is [...]
Disjointed pacing, a subpar script, and a less-than-soaring score scuttle DCU's newest superhero movie. Read Stewart J. Lawrence's postmortem before you hit the theaters.
Originally published in 1899, The Awakening by Kate Chopin is an early exploration of abandoned conventions, feminist agency, and perceived selfishness. So scandalous was [...]
The marriage between my parents dissolved after 13 years. Love in vain? Love misunderstood? Love become intolerance? No doubt all three played a role, [...]
Then&Now
Essays by Christopher Winner
Termination
This is a very short story about my two children. One is Jason, by now close to 45, and Nedra, who, last I was [...]
A dollar gets a dime
Toward the end of his life, long after battles won and lost, brute temper and trivial anger exhausted, my father spoke often of the [...]
Deep blue sea
Smaller than small, I once set out on a a great adventure at the Washington aquarium, another way of saying I became lost. I [...]
Conclave of three doors
The death of Pope Francis was coming for some time. Now, cardinals will face some hard choices, most of which reside behind three doors. [...]
In Case You Missed It
Ford’s brush with death in SF
While our city does not have the equivalent of the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) Dinner, it did stage an [...]
Making dough with dough
Years ago when I picked up my grandmother’s blue mixing bowl and my mother’s favorite spoon, which had a hole [...]
Hong Kong attraction, part 6
We didn’t stay in one place for long. During that first stretch at the Mandarin, I tried to write while [...]
A tale of two campaigns
Democratic socialist Nithya Raman was supposed to be the “next” Zohran Mamdani, laying siege to the Democratic establishment of Los [...]
What college has to answer for
The younger residents in my apartment building seem stuck in college. They wear pajamas and slippers in public spaces. They [...]
Film: “Michael” (2026)
What’s not to like about this boisterous two-hour biopic about pop music legend Michael Jackson? It captures all the flamboyant [...]
Is the old man back again?
There is a scene in "It’s a Wonderful Life," Frank Capra’s 1946 movie, in which the protagonist George Bailey jumps [...]
Film: “Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man”
There’s always a danger in making a feature-length movie to expand upon a successful TV series: The narrative arc of [...]