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…12 min read·Feb 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…5 min read·Feb 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…5 min read·Dec 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”…4 min read·Dec 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…4 min read·Dec 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…8 min read·Dec 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…4 min read·Jun 27, 2020----
Joy LoftusHollywood Needs to Make More MelodramasAlfonso Cuaron’s Roma Reaffirms the Power of the Melodrama9 min read·Dec 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…4 min read·Nov 7, 2019--1--1