Glenn McDonald

courtesy of Universal Pictures End of Watch — the intense police drama new to DVD, Blu-ray and digital this week — truly is a different kind of cop movie. I know, I know. They all say that. But director David Ayer (writer of Training Day) executes an interesting game plan here and gets big results […]

courtesy of Docudrama Films Family lore holds that my mom and dad met as teenagers during Detroit’s heyday in the 1950s, when the Motor City was an enviable American metropolis. Mom worked at a diner downtown. Dad raced hot rods up Telegraph Road. She calmed his ass down and we settled in the suburbs, six […]

courtesy of MPI Home Video “Samsara” is a Sanskrit term that suggests the endless flow of life and death in the material world. It’s a core concept in Indian spiritual traditions, particularly Hinduism and Buddhism. Samsara is the trap of the waking world, from which we can only awaken through enlightenment. The film Samsara, new […]

courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment It’s the year 2044 and America is in shambles. Economic collapse has led to social breakdown. Cities teem with desperate refugees, gangs of vicious vagrants roam the countryside, and organized crime has asserted itself as the law of the land. Street transactions require precious metals and Chinese currency. The […]

courtesy of IFC Films One of the great things about college town life, in my experience, is being plugged into a constant source of youthful energy and enthusiasm. In the spring especially, I like to walk around Chapel Hill and the UNC campus just to recharge my psychic batteries. It reminds me of my own […]