John Hawkes’ Strange and Dangerous Sex Appeal
Everyone loves Elizabeth Olsen in Martha Marcy May Marlene. Now, some adulation for the movie’s cult leader John Hawkes.
Accidentally on Purpose: The True Tale of a Happy Single Mother is available for nearly nothing at various online bookstores and from boxes in Pols' barn.
Mary Pols
Mary Pols has been reviewing film and occasionally books for TIME since 2009. She has degrees from Duke University, where she studied art history, and the University of California Berkeley’s School of Journalism. Before joining TIME, she worked as a reporter and a movie critic for several California newspapers. She wrote a memoir about parenthood that was turned into a television comedy (not Weeds).
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