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Twelfth Night
A young woman disguises herself as a man, falls in love with a Duke, and ends up wooing a widow on the Duke’s behalf…and that’s just for starters.
Movies
Super (2010)
A man’s wife leaves him for her drug dealer, so he decides to become a superhero.
Books
Fun Home (2006)
Alison Bedchel’s memoir covers growing up in a funeral home with a closeted father.
Movies
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn (2019)
The granddaughter of the Rosenbergs made a documentary about Roy Cohn.
Books
Shakespeare in a Divided America (2020)
A few years ago, I read author James Shapiro’s Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? Shapiro believed Shakespeare wrote the plays that had his name on them, but took the book as a means of examining the many people over the Read more…
Movies
Superman: Red Son (2020)
An adaptation of the DC Comics’s Elseworlds story that asked what would have happened had Superman been raised in the Soviet Union.
TV
Henry IV Part 2 (1979)
Falstaff screws around and Prince Hal becomes a king in this continuation of Shakespeare’s version of history.
Movies
The Abyss (1989)
A group of deep sea oil rig workers and some Navy SEALS find complications checking a sunken sub on the bottom of the ocean.
