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Isolating Tensions: Foreground & Background in “Children of Men”
The world in P.D. James’ novel The Children of Men differs vastly from the onscreen realm that we see in the 2006 film adaptation. The basic premise remains the same: widespread infertility has halted...
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Tuesday 5/26 – Night 1
The Forum: Land of Dreams I was ready. I had spent the past several days reviewing the U2 canon — watching old tours and shows (PopMart Live from Mexico City 1997. Glastonbury 2011. Under a Blood Red...
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Background
It started with a song. Or maybe a video. I seem to remember airplanes. Oriental rugs on a Charles de Gaulle runway. Four guys fresh from the 90’s jamming to the coolest hit of the new millennium. For...
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Wednesday 6/3 – Night 5
By the night of the last show, there was nothing else we could hope for, nothing else we could want. Any and all of our desires had been answered and all we could feel was gratitude. We made new...
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Interlude II
MONDAY 6/1 AND TUESDAY 6/2 We had expected Sunday to be our final show together, and I was even more bummed for a solo visit to the Wednesday show than I had been for the Saturday show. Something deep...
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Sunday 5/31 – Night 4
Night 4. North Side for the win! By Sunday we had the drill down. We showed up early, got wristbands (high numbers but not too bad for our favorite spot in the back), went home to chill, then came back...
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Saturday 5/30 – Night 3
Round 3! North Side again Saturday’s show was an anti-climax for me, not in terms of the performance, but because Wednesday was a tough act to follow. It also hurt that Nia couldn’t be there. I hadn’t...
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Wednesday 5/27 – Night 2
Another day, another wristband I’m ashamed to say that I didn’t know Houston had been flooding. I woke up around 6:00am that morning in both a state of blissful delirium but also uncertain foreboding....
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Interlude
THURSDAY 5/28 AND FRIDAY 5/29 “Dream beneath the desert sky…” Photo credit: Nia The days between shows were a blur of social media updates, retweets, emails to photographers and rewatching the videos...
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U2
NOTE: I’d like to warn everyone that this memoir is super long and fairly detailed. I’ve broken it up into chapters to aid with navigation. Feel free to read as much or as little as you please. Or, if...
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Requiem for Nightmares: “Black Mass” Review
Black Mass is not the typical glorified gangster film of mob bosses living lives of splendor and decadence while wielding exceptional power. Rather, it is a cold and distant examination of violence...
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Obsession and Madness: “Pawn Sacrifice” Review
Full disclosure: I’m a bit of a chess nerd. That might come as a shock considering how terrible of a chess player I am, but I can confidently say that the magnitude of my theoretical knowledge of the...
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Hipsters & Daggers: “Hamlet” London Theatre Review
“I thought it was dystopian!” “I thought it was modern?” “I thought it was the past…” The Millennials are confused, and understandably so. The Barbican Centre’s production of William Shakespeare’s...
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Persistence of Time: A Review of Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk begins an existential nightmare and ends as nihilistic commentary on time and fate. But really, what war film doesn’t? And what could Nolan’s Dunkirk stand to teach us that...
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Hamlet and My Problems: Infinity, Madness, and Literary Paralysis
“Horatio, Hamlet, and the Ghost” – Henry Fuseli, 1789 While much of this site has primarily concerned itself with the nexus of film and screenwriting, I expect that this will change more and more in...
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You Gave Me Life, Now Show Me How to Live
This seems like the perfect pair of shows to launch my inaugural Spec Fic Archives blog. I’ll be honest, I always get a little queasy when I delve into the idea of writing about theatre, but I’m going...
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