In the family-based film set on the rocky coast of Maine, characters will be tested by a deep-sea storm before the waters calm on a positive note, writes J.P. Devine.
J.P. Devine
What a writer looks like
If your image of a reporter is taken from the movies, then you might take a look at who’s holding the line today for a free press and all that means, J.P. Devine writes.
J.P. Devine MIFF Movie Review: ‘Trouble in Paradise’
The 1932 light comedy requires us to loosen up and listen, because the dialogue is fast and furious, full of clipped questions and slap-in-the-face answers, writes J.P. Devine.
J.P. Devine MIFF Movie Review: ‘Double Indemnity’
Though ‘Double’ didn’t win an Oscar in 1945, its the film people talk about when they talk about noir, J.P. Devine writes.
J.P. Devine MIFF Movie Review: ‘Something Wild’
This is a suspense sandwich with ingredients labeled FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, J.P. Devine writes.
Friday: best day of the week
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday? Just guys standing on a corner waiting for the fun guy, and his name was Friday, writes J.P. Devine.
Thinking of returning to Lotus Land
When daughters from the City of Angels, it can produce a dangerously flirtatious moment of fantasy for even a thinking man, J.P. Devine writes
Jimmy Cagney, a favorite, was a big shot
The Fourth of July resurrects a sliver of time from a St. Louis movie theater in 1940, writes J.P. Devine.
The old man, the Zika and the Ixodes scapularis
Abandoning his ruminations on youth when climate change forced a move to Maine, JP Devine pens an unlikely message of hope.
She and FLOTUS on the move
Forever and ever, permanently, 100 percent, She is retiring from teaching and will be back home as surely as FLOTUS takes up residence with POTUS in the White House, writes J.P. Devine.