K.M. Breakey, All Thy Sons, Independently Published: 2019, 396 pages, $18.99 Paperback, $4.99 Kindle.
Michael Moore’s only fiction film is Canadian Bacon. “Bud Boomer” (played...
NEW YORK—Last week a $57 million movie flopped and the director apologized. He didn’t just apologize, he kind of humiliated himself publicly. This doesn’t happen. Directors don’t...
Luchino Visconti’s masterpiece is his 1963 historical epic The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, which actually refers to a smaller spotted wild cat, the serval, which is the heraldic animal of the Princes...
NEW YORK—There’s a moment in the cult film Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2—we all remember that one, right?—when deranged serial killer Ricky Caldwell wanders through a residential...
Some of my best reviews are about Quentin Tarantino, but this won’t be one of them. Tarantino has gone from a director I loved (see my essay on Pulp Fiction), to a director I loved to hate (see my...
In a season 3 episode of NYPD Blue, profoundly un-PC detective Andy Sipowicz (played by Dennis Franz) gives his son, a newly minted beat cop, a lesson in street patrol. Sipowicz points to a group of young...
From the New York Times: White Filmmakers Addressing (or Avoiding) Whiteness Onscreen Movies as different as “The Nightingale,” “Midsommar” and “The Last Black Man in San...
Then there is the flip side of how characters who are supposed to be siblings never much look alike: all the movies in which Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill, two unrelated actors who have much in common, play...
As the political races of 2020 emerge, we’re going to see some remarkably weird and hilarious ads. The first to receive that nod belongs to Valerie Plame. The former spy has filmed something that...
I don’t like being wrong. But every now and then, I find myself ashamed to be right. Last month I made a prediction. There was a movie being distributed by Universal called The Hunt, and right-wingers...
The day Jeffrey Epstein turned up dead in a New York jail cell, I decided I needed to write something about Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Stanley Kubrick’s last and weakest movie. Epstein has quickly faded...
Note: Contains Spoilers One of the great things about Heath Ledger’s Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is that he does not have an origin story. Or, actually, he tells two contradictory...
From the Washington Post: A reasonable pick. Okay, but how about Ryan Gosling> Ryan Gosling also gives a tremendous performNE.= Michael Keaton for “Beetlejuice” (1988)n. John Malkovich for...
On Friday at high noon, I saw a matinee of the feverishly hyped film Joker at a megaplex in rural Georgia on the first day of its official release. As we handed our tickets to the small, doughy, middle-aged...
Here's my new movie review in Taki's Magazine: Read the whole thing there
Joker is a clever and memorable (although not terribly original or enjoyable) R-rated art-house drama in the tradition of Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy masquerading as yet another comic book movie....
This is America (and Canada too). From the alternative Seattle paper The Stranger:
About halfway through my conversation with filmmakers Patricia Marcoccia and Maziar Ghaderi, they got two pieces of...
PHOENIXVILLE, Pa.—Let’s look on the bright side of the new 20-hour nonstop flight between New York and Sydney. Personally I don’t expect to ever be that desperate to get to Sydney. I’m...
Watching the 1984 movie version of Bizet's Carmen starring Placido Domingo is probably the easiest way to give opera a try. I never saw the late Luciano Pavarotti live, so Domingo is the biggest opera...
Blake Edwards’ 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s—loosely based on Truman Capote’s 1958 novel of the same name—stars Audrey Hepburn in her iconic role of Holly Golightly, a...
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