Over the last three decades, Mike Judge has been one of the major contributors to American popular culture, creating the tremendous TV shows Beavis and Butt-Head, King of the Hill, and Silicon Valley and...
A friend says that Adam Sandler is a great guy who keeps half his high school senior class employed working on his many movies. So upscale audiences should appreciate when Sandler occasionally makes a...
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho in 1960 and John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate in 1962 were two of the most brilliantly made movies of their time, both in black-and-white with Freudian incest themes....
Last year, I watched the hit Netflix satirical Killer Comet movie Don't Look Up from Adam McKay, Will Ferrell's former writer, but couldn't think of much of pressing interest to say about the Killer Comet...
From my movie review in Taki's Magazine: Read the whole thing there. I want to thank everybody who has contributed to this Christmas 2021 iSteve fundraiser to allow me to get cataract surgery on my eyes...
From my movie review in Taki's Magazine comparing Steven Spielberg's remake of West Side Story to the 1961 film: When You’re a Remake Steve Sailer December 15, 2021 ... Mostly, Spielberg’s West Side...
Like The Great Gatsby, the enduring fame of West Side Story is due to two factors: Many people encounter it during high school (because teachers show the 1961 movie when trying to get kids to read Shakespeare’s...
Spotted Toad is back on Twitter: About 40 years ago, I noticed that the single most common bit in the history of American movies was happy people listening to big band music on the radio on December 7,...
From my movie review in Taki's Magazine: Licorice Pizza: Local Boy Makes Good Steve Sailer December 01, 2021 Paul Thomas Anderson’s critically acclaimed Licorice Pizza is his response to Quentin Tarantino’s...
Paul Thomas Anderson’s critically acclaimed Licorice Pizza is his response to Quentin Tarantino’s similarly nostalgic Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood. As you may recall, I was a huge homer for...
Rebecca Hall is a pretty actress you've probably seen in movies such as Ben Affleck's The Town. Her father was Sir Peter Hall, the titanic English stage and opera director who helmed the first English-language...
I find most films nowadays as fascinating as a lengthy history of orthodontics, but then I’m spoiled rotten having watched old black-and-white pearls such as From Here to Eternity, The Asphalt Jungle,...
Dune is an extraordinarily impressive (if not utterly enjoyable) adaptation of the first half of the epic 1965 science-fiction novel that George Lucas borrowed heavily from for his boys’ version in Star...
It has stepped into the pop culture spotlight via the HBO hit Succession, a hit job on the very rich and powerful produced by the very rich and much more powerful Adam McKay (The Big Short). McKay started...
Sometime in the early 1990s a friend suggested that I watch a movie called The Handmaid’s Tale. I was vaguely aware of the book…I knew it was authored by some ugly old bat from Canada, and honestly...
From Wikipedia: But then he broke with Castro in 1960 and moved to Miami. As one does. I'm sure Bosch was all very sincere in his ideological convictions, but his obsession with blowing stuff up is reminiscent...
Two weeks after 9/11, I published a lengthy movie review of John Huston's 1975 adaptation of Kipling's extraordinary short story The Man Who Would Be King, which starred Sean Connery and Michael Caine...
From the New York Times: ‘Boyz N the Hood’ at 30: A Vivid Examination of Racism at Work The director John Singleton uses the experiences of a father and son, Tre and Furious, to depict how a Black...
A friend writes: Otto Preminger filmed a black version, Carmen Jones, of Bizet's opera Carmen in 1954. Carmen combines greatness with broad accessibility to an extraordinary degree, so it's good to make...
Perhaps the 1993 sci-fi satire film Demolition Man with Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, and Rob Schneider? The team behind Demolition Man aren't that well known: Mike Judge's 2005 film...
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