Archives for April 2013

Saw the new Ryan Gosling/Bradley Cooper movie, The Place Beyond the Pines. It has ambitions as a Seriously Meaningful film, which it mostly lives up to. It’s a gritty flick, about what gets handed down from father to son – which isn’t always pretty – and the way actions echo across time. I give Gosling and Cooper credit for using their considerable star power to make a film that’s several notches more challenging than most Hollywood fare. Worth seeing. googlee666293b5d15d815.html

A bright spot in political humor: Every Sunday the New York Times runs The Strip, by Brian McFadden. Mordant, brilliant, and well drawn, this insightful bit of political commentary is almost always worth checking out. Here's the title panel from this week's 8-panel strip about the many failures of our legislative branch.