They're All Wasted

Why Trumbo Was Just Okay

  Bryan Cranston as Trumbo. Bleecker Street.  I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of the dark side of Hollywood. In fact, in college I wrote a mini thesis on the Hollywood Blacklist for my junior seminar class, but it was focused specifically on Elia Kazan. But when I heard about the film Trumbo, I was intrigued and had to see this film to see one of my favorite topics come to life on film.…

A Letter to Simon*

Dear Simon*, The last time I saw you, I was probably 15 or 16. It was your 50th birthday. You were not the man I remembered growing up with in my life. Everything that had happened to you over the few years before our last physical interaction had clearly taken its toll on you. You weren’t really all there anymore. You told me stories of your life that very well could have been fabricated as you…