Michael Clayton: Hollywood’s Last Movie for Adults
Michael Clayton is a character who gets a wake-up call. It’s not an “oh, wow, they killed off that character” moment, it’s not a clever reveal, it’s not an “instant[…]
Author: Sean Hooks
Sean Hooks was born and raised in New Jersey. He has a BA-Liberal Arts from Drew University, an MFA-Fiction from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and an MA-English from Loyola Marymount University. He currently lives in Los Angeles and teaches English at the University of California, Riverside and Fullerton College. A writer of fiction and essays, his publications include Los Angeles Review of Books, Las Vegas Weekly, Pif Magazine, Superstition Review, SubStance, FORTH Magazine, Intellectual Refuge, The Journal, Heavy Feather Review, The Record, Ginosko Literary Journal, The International Journal of Literary Humanities, and AkashicBooks.com.
The Propagation of Empathy, the Absence of Bathos: On Alexander Payne’s Sideways (2004)
Regret is perhaps Payne’s greatest theme. The continual human dramedy, the elegiac comedy, a country full of people with limited potential raised to think everyone is special, confined souls struggling[…]
