What seems to be the trouble, Captain? OK … you never get a second chance to make a first impression. So I won’t...

Fox hears “yellowface” and turns yellow There’s one other point that deserves some elaboration in the...

The Amazing Chan and the Fox Klan It was set to be a good summer for mystery buffs who get the Fox Movie Channel (both...

The Passion (of Jesus of Nazareth) Here is the trailer for Mel Gibson’s upcoming movie on the Crucifixion.

I...

To flat rejection: Nevermore

LE CORBEAU (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France, 1943)

I saw this French film on Turner...

Polish tripe

NORTHFORK (Michael and Mark Polish, USA, 2003)

Though I’m unsure of my mixed reaction to LE...

Advance word on Mel’s movie There was a private screening in Washington last night for Mel Gibson’s THE PASSION....

Drugstore Cowboy A recent White House occupant fancies himself as a cowboy, only it’s not Dubya, but, according to the...

Pre-birth post-mortems An interesting article appeared recently in the Christian Science Monitor about how the Internet has...

Passion politics If I’m gonna slag Michael Medved in my initial post, I’d better link to him when he says some...

The Religion of Tolerance Update No, this is not about Islam (that’s The Religion of Peace, for future reference)....

Mahler meets Murnau meets Diaghilev meets Dracula

DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN’S DIARY (Guy Maddin, Canada,...

Mel ruled as not kosher Well, one day after I advise Mel Gibson not to let the Anti-Defamation League see THE PASSION,...

Check out Google right now Go here for a homage (dunno when this effect will expire … I suspect at midnight EDT,...

Liberalism as product placement (Putting on my best Anne Robinson voice…)

Reese Witherspoon’s ensemble...

“Down with freedom!” This is just too funny. Free Willy doesn’t want to be free.

Maybe an aquatic Jean-Jacques...

This week, I prefer Roeper It has long been obvious to all who cared that Roger Ebert was a liberal Democrat with radical...

“Coming Around Again”

THE SECRET LIVES OF DENTISTS (Alan Rudolph, USA, 2003)

Early this year, my friend...

Knives already out for Mel Some film critics in a major metropolitan area have the leads already written on Mel Gibson’s...

The Secret Feminism of the Secret Lives of Dentists In e-mail and list-servs, I have often lamented the dearth of good...