While watching “Repossessed,” a little-known spoof of “The Exorcist,” I saw two antagonists meet a poetic and deserved fate and had an epiphany. To fight Immigration and Customs Enforcement policies and Christian nationalism, we must start with the Lehigh County flag.
Christian nationalism is on the rise in America, and it is trickling down to the Lehigh Valley.... Read Original Article
If ever a sequel was released which can be enjoyed without seeing the original, it is Darren Lynn Bousman's "Saw II."On the surface, "Saw II" is a standard cop thriller. Detective Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg) must capture a sadistic serial killer known as Jigsaw...
Something surprising and significant is happening among the Democratic Party’s rank-and-file progressives. After decades of drifting toward protectionism, President Donald Trump’s taste for tariffs is doing more than prompting mainstream Democrats (a group that tends to support free trade) to see the merits of low tariffs. Even many independent socialists — a group that has often been vocally skeptical of “free trade” policies — are similarly denouncing high tariffs.... Read Original Article
When I learned “Avatar” director James Cameron described America under President Donald Trump as “horrifying,” I wasn’t surprised. Even if I wasn’t a longtime Cameron fan who is therefore familiar with his liberal-leaning politics, I’ve seen “Avatar: The Way...
This week, the country is officially remembering the late President Jimmy Carter. Today, his body will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Among those reflecting on Carter’s legacy are advocates for people with *disabilities. In 1977, the Carter...
I've watched "Avatar" so many times that, according to some reports, it could be unhealthy. It all starts with my childhood. Growing up as an autistic kid in the late '90s, I went through a phase in which I obsessed over box office statics. This included that period...
Almost three years ago, I dismissed the movie "Pulse 3: Invasion" while reviewing "Pulse 2: Afterlife" by penning the following unflattering characterization: “Pulse 3: Invasion,” directed and written by Joel Soisson, occurs in a world reduced to rubble thanks to the...
Originally published in Shawnee News, a middle school newspaper (June, 1999) The question in this article's headline is not going to be answered. The fact of the matter is, there may never be such an answer, for how can you explain the events in Littleton, Colorado?...
This is the first movie review that I ever had published. It appeared in the June 1999 edition of "Shawnee News," the school newspaper of "Shawnee Middle School" in Easton, PA. Its title was simply, "Movie Review."To better understand who I was as a human being when I...
This is the story of how I was assaulted and given a concussion by members of the Lehigh Valley Tea Party on February 3, 2022. They never told me why, but I had been invited to the event and was attacked shortly after one of the members saw one of my Salon articles....