by Sam Juliano
Thanksgiving Day 2018. Weather forecasters are predicting one of the coldest Turkey Days on record for the NYC and northern New Jersey region, with the numbers promised to dip below freezing. My own family will be traveling up to my wife’s sister’s home in Butler, New Jersey for the 25th consecutive year where the usual throng of 70 plus assembles in a specious home at the end of a cul de sac. The crew at Wonders in the Dark extends to all readers a very Happy Thanksgiving and safe traveling to all destinations. Over the years the day has meant congregating with beloved family, taking a gander at the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys and trying not to go overboard at the meal and desert tables.
This past week Jim Clark published a penetrating essay on Ingmar Bergman’s 1972 Cries and Whispers, while J.D. Lafrance posted a terrific review of Jason Bourne: Geopolitical Action Hero a day earlier. My own review of the picture book Night Train, Night Train continued my ongoing Caldecott Medal Contender series. Otherwise I am fighting stomach nausea, aching joints and the sweats. It is that time of the year again. Ugh! Lucille and I attended a beautiful wedding at the Valley Regency in Clifton, New Jersey (right across the road from my alma mater Montclair State University) for the only child of one of my very best lifelong friends Tony Lucibello. His daughter Diana, age 38 marries a man four or five years older in a wonderful Catholic-Jewish mixed denomination ceremony. This was our fourth wedding in the last five weeks.
Lucille and I only managed a single movie in theaters this past week, but the coming week will be more hectic on that front:
Widows **** (Friday night) Teaneck Cinemas
