PinnedJoy LoftusinThe Junction“On Discipline”Set deep in the midst of Amish Country in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania is a curious amusement-park like establishment, known as Camp…Feb 14, 2021Feb 14, 2021
Joy LoftusTrump’s Travel Ban: The Question American Leaders have been AvoidingI wonder if President Obama would have signed into law the Visa Waiver Improvement Program and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act if he had…Feb 26, 2021Feb 26, 2021
Joy LoftusJane Campion’s BRIGHT STAR Dazzles with Brilliant Choreography and SymbolismDuring a poetry lesson held between two illicit lovers, John Keats and Fanny Brawne, Keats instructs Fanny: “A poem needs understanding…Dec 24, 2020Dec 24, 2020
Joy LoftusReview: “Little Fires Everywhere”A tv miniseries adaptation of Celeste Ng’s second novel, “Little Fires Everywhere” (her first a novel called “Everything I Never Told You”…Dec 7, 2020Dec 7, 2020
Joy Loftus“Elastic Time”In 1925 Virginia Woolf’s modernist classic Mrs. Dalloway was published in London, after which the field of literature, and the…Dec 3, 2020Dec 3, 2020
Joy LoftusDivasJules was at the hospice with Mrs. Grey, an elderly woman suffering from terminal sarcoma, a rare form of heart cancer. She felt a filial…Dec 3, 2020Dec 3, 2020
Joy LoftusWasp Network: An Ambitious Cuban-America Spy Drama starring Edgar Ramirez and Penelope CruzOliver Assayas, the French director who once wrote alongside the likes of Jean-Luc Godard for the Cahiers du Cinema magazine, was…Jun 27, 2020Jun 27, 2020
Joy LoftusHollywood Needs to Make More MelodramasAlfonso Cuaron’s Roma Reaffirms the Power of the MelodramaDec 4, 2019Dec 4, 2019
Joy LoftusAre the Chinese Film Industry Censors Only About Controlling China, or Hollywood too?People fled to see Todd Phillips’s Joker, which was released on October 4, to better understand the Batman supervillain apart from his…Nov 7, 20191Nov 7, 20191