Frank Farley (frank.farley@tempple.edu), Kristyn Carrell, Bradley Dinger, Madison McClary, Alexa Micozzi, Wande Sogbesan, Angelo Soriano, & Melissa Steinheiser1 A Review of Joker, Director: Todd Phillips Joker is a film that goes deeper than many DC Comics-influenced films. It is not just a seeming descendant of the Batman movies but is a psychological horror film with…
Frank Farley Temple University frank.farley@temple.edu A Review of the film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Director: Marielle Heller This is the ultimate feel-good film, which of course makes sense as it involves that ultimate feel-good TV figure Fred Rogers, of TV’s Mister Rogers’s Neighborhood. With Rogers played brilliantly by Tom Hanks, it traces the…
Stephanie Miodus, MA Temple University stephaniemiodus@gmail.com & Frank Farley, PhD Temple University frank.farley@temple.edu A Review of Parkland: Inside Building 12; Director: Charlie Minn Parkland: Inside Building 12 is a documentary about the devastating school shooting on February 14, 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. As the movie title suggests, the shooting…
Frank Farley, PhD Temple University frank.farley@temple.edu & Stephanie Miodus, MA Temple University stephaniemiodus@gmail.com A Review of We Are Columbine, Director: Laura Farber This profound film was screened by the first author. at the Newtown Theatre, Newtown, PA, apparently the oldest continuously operating movie house in America which showed its first film in 1906. It is…
Mary Gregerson, PhD Heartlandia Psychology, Leavenworth, KS mary.gregerson@aol.com & Dowon Choi, MA Florida State University dowonchoe@gmail.com Reviews of Crazy Rich Asians, Director: John M. Chu and A Simple Favor, Director: Paul Feig Dear Henry, “Everybody wants to be us,” ad libs actress Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly in 2006’s The Devil Wears Prada. Henry, this classic…
Athena Linton, Valerie Cordero, Nicholas Galea, Kevin Larmour, Stephanie Miodus, Kelsey O’Donnell, William Pilny, Samantha Schwartz, Zachary Shannon, & Frank Farley, frank.farley@temple.edu A review of Three Identical Strangers Director: Tim Wardle Do the ends justify the means? Should the needs of one individual be put on hold in order to advance knowledge for an entire…
Gregory F. (Greg) Zerovnik, EMBA, PhD California Institute of Advanced Management gzerovnik@verizon.net A review of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan Were Tom Clancy still alive, how much would he recognize in this reincarnation of one of his most beloved fictional characters? Clancy’s original Jack Ryan, portrayed in film most memorably by Harrison Ford, has had his…
