Christopher Nolan is reported to have first seen Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” when he was seven years old.  The experience was impactful, as Nolan then began to shoot films using his father’s Super 8 camera.  By the age of eleven, he had determined to be a professional filmmaker. It would be easy to […]

She entered my office tentatively, which told me immediately that she was not in a good place emotionally.  She was one of my first-year students, and I had sensed all semester that she may not have been adapting to the rigors of law school all that well. I bade her to have a seat across […]

With the Republicans about to be fully in control of Congress as a result of the party’s massive victory earlier this month, we can expect a plethora of reheated prescriptions to be trotted out in the form of budget proposals and tax initiatives.  And since the current version of the GOP hates any government spending […]

Two films in current release caught our attention recently.  One is a traditional attempt to mix a murder mystery with family dramatics; the other is anything but traditional in every respect.  And while both merit attention and each has its share of flaws, the non-traditional one stands out as the far superior effort. “The Judge” […]