Author: Nicki Salcedo
I love the Decatur Book Festival because I feel like I’m back in school. I enjoy reading books on all sorts of topics. History and politics. Culinary and theology. Poetry and short stories. Does ...
We need big movies during the summer because summer is a happy time. It’s the best time to put the world in peril. June is a good month for alien invasions. July is right ...
A few years ago, an author friend was surprised to learn that I hadn’t seen any of the “Fast and Furious” movies. She’s a brilliant person who writes literary fiction. She is respected as ...
Editor’s note: Spoilers ahead. You’ve been warned. The blockbuster movie of the summer, “Avengers: Endgame,” actually came out in the spring. I’ve spent the hot days of June and July watching arthouse films like ...
I thought the movie was going to be a documentary. The title, “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” makes you think it could be real. I remember the first time I arrived in ...
I watched the original “John Wick” movie on an airplane. It wasn’t for me. I’m tired of the cliché about the hero with the dead wife. It insults me. As a woman and a ...
I first saw “The Graduate” as a senior in college. Stanford brought mainstream movies to campus all year in a program called “Flicks.” The culminating event was always the 1967 film “The Graduate” starring ...
Some of you will never see “Avengers: Endgame.” I hear from people who proudly proclaim they don’t like superhero movies and haven’t seen one movie from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Some of you ...
In order to get ready for “Avengers: Endgame,” I decided to re-watch the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movies in order. Iron Man (2008) Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is a genius billionaire who makes weapons ...
I avoid movies about race relations whenever possible. I don’t care if I’m stuck on a plane or if it’s streaming free somewhere. They usually fall into the broad categories: slavery, civil rights, unlikely ...
