The gray suburban fringes of Cork’s Northside region are gradually colored with hope in “Christy,” an old-fashioned coming-of-age heartwarmer with few narrative surprises but a winningly authentic sense of place, people...
Alone and happily adrift for the summer in Brooklyn, a young gay grad student hits the apps for an evening hookup, and within minutes, is met in a neighborhood park by...
“Separated” is a fraught, transitional term in human relationships, prone to conflicting definitions by partners who have long been inclined towards conflict: a prelude to a permanent end for one, a...
Kazuo Ishiguro’s 1982 debut novel “A Pale View of Hills” is an elegant, slippery examination of lives caught between identities both national and existential: Its tale-within-a-tale of two Japanese women living...
Divorce should be easy for Carey (Kyle Marvin), his friends assure him when his wife Ashley (Adria Arjona) gives him the heave-ho after just one year of marriage: It’s only complicated...
Perhaps coincidentally, the title “The Wave” recalls Todd Strasser’s 1980s YA novel of that name, which became a staple of Gen-X and early-millennial English syllabi, on the strength of some easily...
