A film by Christopher Nolan Reviewed by Lloyd Sederer MD Soon into the 3 hours of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, the screen explodes with perilous ocean scenes of a Norse Sea ship on its 10-year return to home, both distant in sea miles and memory. It is returning from Troy and the Trojan War, seeking Ithaca, Greece (ca., 700 BC). Universal Pictures That’s when I had a metaphysical experience. I became quite anxious (not like me). I could not discern where I was (as in an I

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My account about the failure to solve homelessness (in NYC) Shutterstock An essay by Dr. Lloyd Sederer My wife and I were at an elegant dinner party on the upper west side of Manhattan on a cold, clear wintry Saturday night. The conversation shifted to the homeless men sleeping on the steps of a nearby church. It was no surprise since our hosts and others there knew we both worked to improve the lot of the homeless in NYC. My wife through her work with supported housing and

A film review by Dr. Lloyd Sederer Awarded for Direction, Rashad Frett, US Drama, Sundance Film Festival, 2025 ......................................................................................................... RICKY is the fictional story of a young black man in America, the northeast, not the south. Phillip Roth wrote, “... fiction is the closest thing we have to the truth". Convicted of armed auto theft at age 15, Ricky was sentenced as an adult to what would last 15