'The Company You Keep' is about outgrowing not just the delusions that accompany youth but the harsh certainties driving our lives and then trapping them before the years outpace the velocity of our dreams. Steve Erickson accompanycertaintycompany share on social
Struggling to end the war and to eliminate slavery once and for all by way of the 13th Amendment, with the amendment's prospective passage undermining the effort to make peace with the Confederacy and vice versa, Lincoln embodied the Great Man theory that leftists disdain. Steve Erickson 13thamendmentconfederacy share on social
A modern fascination with the fantastic seems to come along every couple of generations, usually at a point when we're future saturated. Steve Erickson couplefantasticfascination Change image and share on social
Taking place in some Nordic-looking hinterland where all the seasons are out of whack, 'Game of Thrones' is the most aggressive example since 'Battlestar Galactica' of a genre that's perceived as adolescent aspiring to be fully adult. Steve Erickson adolescentadultaggressive share on social
Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts act themselves senseless in 'August: Osage County,' and by the time they're finished, they've acted their movie senseless, too. Steve Erickson actaugustcounty Change image and share on social
The most telling thing about 'Fargo,' both the now-classic movie and the television series, is that it doesn't take place in Fargo. Steve Erickson classicfargomovie Change image and share on social
You can't blame movies for embracing spectacle; filmmakers since D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille have loved spectacle, and spectacle is something that movies convey like no other medium, especially in a digital age. Steve Erickson ageblamececil share on social
David Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars' is a Hollywood monster movie in which Hollywood is the monster. Steve Erickson cronenbergdavidhollywood Change image and share on social
Nothing manifests more persuasively the American contradiction than that the author of the Declaration of Independence, a slave owner, wrote an antislavery clause into the document - as if to compel himself to be better than he was - which then had to be edited out so the Southern states, including Thomas Jefferson's own, would sign it. Steve Erickson americanantislaveryauthor share on social
Quentin Tarantino is my 15-year-old son's favorite director, and by that I mean no condescension to either Tarantino or my 15-year-old son. Steve Erickson condescensiondirectorfavorite Change image and share on social