Twelve trench coat-clad UC Irvine students pour into the unusually warm streets of Amsterdam's Red Light District in search of Hotel The Globe. Through the cobblestone streets of the District, the wheels of our baggage click between stones and our eyes wander between old architecture and the streaming canal. It is March 20 and finals week exhaustion can barely penetrate the excitement of travel as we arrive at the hostel and recuperate for half an hour and reassemble downstairs.
Books in libraries and texts for writing courses can seem like fairly benign objects since they're just pages filled with words, bound in hard or soft covers, with occasional illustrations. They're just words, right? Who would think that words on a page could incite strong reactions or push people to keep some books out of others' hands?
In his sophomore directorial effort, filmmaker Jeffrey Blitz takes his chances with the fictional narrative 'Rocket Science,' putting his skills as a documentarian temporarily...
