One Wild Ride: Review of One Battle After Another ★★★★ By Geoff Carter Illustration by Michael DiMilo In the cataclysmic first scenes of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, a group of highly organized militant revolutionaries named French 75 frees a group of Mexican immigrants from a detention center. While the is not explicitly stated, …
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Hitting Home
Attribution: Paul Goyette from Chicago, USA, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter After America somehow reelected a man who fomented a rebellion in an attempt to overturn the government, the last nine months have seemed unreal, like some sort of nightmare—an incessantly recurring nightmare. Terrible things are happening. Innocent American citizens are being …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Review of “The Alto Knights”
Illustration by Michael DiMilo ★★★☆☆ Comfort Food: Review of The Alto Knights By Geoff Carter The Mafia is an American institution. So is the gangster film. From Little Caesar, White Heat, and The Public Enemy to The Godfather—the definitive mother of all modern gangster movies, Goodfellas, The Irishman, A Bronx Tale, The Sopranos, and Casino, the culture of organized crime, including sit-downs, …
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The Most Important Meal of the Day–or Year
Photo by Mary Gorski By Geoff Carter We’ve been residents of the Riverwest neighborhood in Milwaukee for the past thirty-two years. During that time, we’ve raised a child, seen neighbors move in and out, watched businesses change hands, followed local politics, and witnessed neighborhood groups rise and fall. All sorts of stuff has happened over …
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