One moment can upend a person’s life; two moments may destroy it. Two such moments are evidenced in The Lookout, a 2007 drama starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. In the film, he portrays a man named Chris Pratt, who had been an expert hockey player. Four years in the past, he suffered a brain injury, not from …
After viewing the unrealistic portrayal of brain injury in Regarding Henry, my research brought me to a film that the Chicago Tribune described as a “counterpoint to Regarding Henry”, namely Every 21 Seconds. The 2018 independent film is classified, by various sites, as intense, dramatic, gut-wrenching, inspiring, and heroic. In 2019, it was screened in …
Cities, in general, are not known to be the safest places to walk alone at night. Even if your destination is simply the local convenience store, caution may be necessary and even more so in a large city like New York. In 2023, the NYPD reports that the felony assault rate has been in the …
One of Hitchcock’s Blondes, which also included Grace Kelly, Doris Day, Eva Marie Saint, Kim Novak and Janet Leigh, Tippi Hedren was essentially an unknown cinematic name before her starring role in The Birds. The film, along with her Hitchcock follow-up film Marnie, made her a star and paved the way for her daughter and …
TBI on the Screen 