With a few exceptions, most art photography leaves me . . . meh. Probably that just means I lack the education or sophistication to understand it, but for me it seems like there's a few obvious tricks to art photography and once you master those there's not much to distinguish one art photographer from another. … Continue reading Nutshell Movie Reviews: The Last Resort (2018)

Every great con artist movie performs a kind of card trick in which the audience identifies with the suave anti-heroes as they relieve their naive victims of their assets only to discover at the end that they have been gulled into a version of reality that failed to anticipate the final double-cross. The movie is … Continue reading Nutshell Movie Reviews: The Swindle (1997)

This documentary on the career and demise of Amy Winehouse provides chapter and verse on her too brief trajectory from ingenue to superstar to pop culture punching bag to the grave. It's the same sad endlessly repeated story of our news/entertainment industry building up and then destroying celebrities. The celebrities are adults. No one forces … Continue reading Nutshell Movie Reviews: Amy (2015)