The Film Canon: Alice (1988)

“Now you will see a film,” the young red lips tell us, “made for children.” A pause, a break, and the lips return. “Perhaps.” Another pause, another break. “But I nearly forgot!” Pause, break, a piano ascends a major scale…

Celebrate Your Right to Read: Banned Books Week

In honor of the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week (www.ala.org/bbooks), beginning September 21, the country will celebrate its essential, inborn freedom of reading literature. Banned Books Week highlights the profound importance of reading a book, yet it also draws…