Author Archives: Bob Hill

“My unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: ‘Is this person in between me and what I want to do?’ … Read More

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A full minute before the curtain lifts, John Carpenter’s already got you with that music … that 5/4 building octave wreaking havoc over credits. Halloween‘s opening salvo unfolds exactly like Spielberg’s Jaws – looping music over credits, cut to teenagers, slight … Read More … Read More

“There was this boy. And he was a tiny boy – a very, very little boy. He was so small that his mom had to buy him a wooly hat that he would one day grow into. And it sits … Read More

The silence feels so welcoming Brilliant camerawork Early dialogue plays like it was written for a video game First 15 minutes, one continuous take First 15 minutes, all tell Amazing how they accomplish this without inducing motion-sickness Bullock: “Well, you … Read More … Read More

The experienced climber is well above 8,000 meters when the initial wave of atrophy occurs. The early symptoms are quite subtle – narrow breathing, cramping limbs, perhaps the sudden, stilted loss of equilibrium. One is well within the summit push … Read More … Read More

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The bigger the war, the more incomprehensible its depths. That dynamic may very well explain why the majority of war-epic directors tend to zero in on a specific regimen or event, using it as a microcosm for the more deplorable … Read More … Read More

“When we passed the Affordable Care Act, there were a number of components to it. A big part of it was essentially providing a Patients’ Bill of Rights that Americans and advocates have been fighting for for decades. What we … Read More

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