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 …
Premiering on Valentine’s Day weekend in 2012 and starring teen heartthrob Channing Tatum, The Vow advertised itself as a simple romantic comedy and, ultimately, brought in almost $200 million. Not just based on a true story, the film is based on a book of the same name. In 2000, Krickitt and Kris Carpenter, in association …
TBI on the Screen 