They LiveAmerican PravdaHigh IQ IdiotI-word In 1999, a big hit movie was The Matrix. I went and saw it but I don’t recall it making much of an impression on me. At the time, my understanding of...
Hail, Caesar!, the Coen Brothers’ latest movie, is a cheerful comedy about a busy week in 1951 at the fictitious Hollywood studio, Capitol Pictures, where their Barton Fink took place in 1941. That...
Blood SimpleHail Caesar! With a 17th Coen Brothers movie on the way this week, I return to an old question: How have the two middle-aged men gone over 30 years without the kind of public spats that are...
The Big ShortBrooklynEx MachinaMad Max: Fury RoadThe MartianThe RevenantSicarioSpotlightStraight Outta ComptonMad MaxInside OutCreedSteve JobsTrainwreckStar WarsCarolRoomJoyTrumboCreedJurassic WorldWolf...
I finally saw the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie, which is much like the old Star Wars movie of 1977. My hunch is that it was aimed in part to rope in the giant Chinese audience, which was too...
Pretty Apollo Creed, July 4, 1976 Creed is a worthy (if almost too respectful) addition to the canon of Rocky movies. The basic pitch by writer-director Ryan Coogler (who has the name of a white quarterback,...
Taxi DriverMasculinity.The Republican Drug. Male movie stars were not expected to lift weights for much of Hollywood history. Stewart’s campaign ribbons For example, around 1983-85 I was sitting...
Star Wars Watching Sir Ridley Scott’s The Martian, I got to thinking about how Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, and Chiwetel Ejiofor are, like a lot of other actors over the years, starting to get typecast...
MAVMars Ascent Vehicle Matt Damon plays a NASA astronaut stranded on Mars in Sir Ridley Scott’s faithful adaptation of the ultra-hard sci-fi novel originally self-published in 2011 by Andy Weir....
The Moneyball concept that nerds could outsmart traditional baseball executives using statistics has been a galvanizing one. How well does it apply in other fields? For example, lots of statistics are...
The seventh installment in the Fast & Furious movie franchise with Vin Diesel and the late Paul Walker as brothers-in-law who lead a heist outfit who drive fast cars and steal from bad guys meets...
A strange film from highbrow horror director David Cronenberg (The Fly) that tries to combine movie industry self-satire with multigenerational incest-driven “Greek tragedy” (in Cronenberg’s...
BirdmanAll About EveKiss Me KateAll That JazzShow BoatCabaretThe ProducersNoises OffMoulin RougeThe Real ThingThe Real Inspector Hound.GravityThe Avengers As I wrote on January 15: I saw “Birdman”...
BoyhoodBoyhood'sGirlhoodGirlhoodBoyhoodCougar TownThe Blind SideDadMomBirdman Oscar contender “Boyhood” is Richard Linklater’s somewhat overpraised autobiographical movie about his youth...
A Most Violent YearWhiplash “A Most Violent Year” stars Oscar Isaac as, pretty much, a brooding Michael Corleone trying to go straight in the heating oil business in New York’s outer...
American SniperBirdmanBoyhoodThe Grand Budapest HotelThe Imitation GameSelmaWhiplashAll About EveKiss Me KateAll That JazzShow BoatCabaretThe ProducersNoises OffMoulin RougeThe Real ThingThe Real Inspector...
Mad Men.Jupiter AscendingThe MatrixCloud Atlas.MaleficentX-MenGodzillaNeighbors.Captain America: The Winter SoliderGodzilla. Two articles from The Wrap … First: Hollywood Dumps Diversity (Again):...
American HustleCaptain PhillipsFlight From the NYT: Racial Barriers Still Hold Back Hollywood’s Black TalentBy REUTERS FEB. 25, 2014, 8:15 P.M. E.S.T. LOS ANGELES — When Halle Berry and Denzel...
Jack Ryan: Shadow RecruitThe AvengersThe TouristTinker Tailor Soldier SpyLimitlessJack ReacherSafeThe Day AfterThreadsRocky IV Movies these days tend to be extremely accurate visually about what the past...
JarheadBoiler RoomGlengarry Glen RossWall Street.Wall Street While reading about Martin Scorsese’s upcoming movie The Wolf of Wall Street (opening Christmas) with Leonardo DiCaprio playing convicted...
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