Warner Herzog’s newest documentary Into the Abyss is less about whether capital punishment should exist and more about why it does. Herzog’s opinion on lethal injection is no mystery. Within the first ten minutes of the film, he denounces the practice, but doesn’t stoop to demagoguery. Rather, Into the Abyss is a resonating documentary seems to focus […]
About six months ago, I sat in The Penny Farthing, a bar in the East Village of Manhattan, and four of us at the table waxed philosophical about what we would do should we encounter a wild animal, being that the abundance of squirrels, rats, and pigeons in Manhattan – and raccoons in deep Queens – suggests […]