Film Capsule: Return

Return is a somber war-at-home pic that examines post-traumatic stress from the unraveling perspective of a military mom.

Kelli (Linda Cardellini) is a National Guard supply specialist, who returns from a deployment abroad to a Rust Belt overrun with boarded-up plants, vacant lots, and miles of white pickets, piercing the air like tiny wooden swords.  Continue reading

Film Capsule: How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?

“Sometimes I think I see things [other people] don’t.”

So says Norman Foster, whose iconic structures have redefined the very boundaries of modern architecture. Foster, who is now in his mid-70s, helped spearhead the Post-Formalist movement back in the early 80s and 90s, and he continues to be a guiding force today. Much like Ieoh Ming Pei and Vincent Scully before him, Foster views free-standing structures as a progressive reflection of the time and space they inhabit – cultural totems that are much more indicative of where a civilization is headed than where it has been.  Continue reading