Knives OUt: Immigrant Song
A running joke in Rian Johnson's surprising hit mystery, Knives Out, is the fact that the members of an upper-class family in...
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The Cotton Club Encore: Coppola and the Mob
The backstory behind the making of Francis Ford Coppola's 1984 box office bomb The Cotton Club has all the the plot twists and palace...
Ford v. Ferrari: Showing Up the Suits
The makers of Ford v. Ferrari, the high-testosterone, biographical joyride from director James Mangold, should be called out for false...
Richard Jewell: Bubba the Bomber
There are times when we are so hellbent on justice that we do an injustice instead. Richard Jewell, Clint Eastwood's latest film about a...
Split Atoms
Before I leave this earth, I have one thing to say, Why me. Before I leave this room, I have one thing to add, Why not. Before I make...
Earworm
Earworm, earworm underneath my marigolds, Underneath my plain brain pan, driving me insane. Earworm, earworm, why can't you just go away,...
Grownup-Hood
Be a man, a real man, c'mon man, grow up, take it on the chin, don't worry what others think, put away your childish toys, it's time to...
Marriage Story: An Inconvenient Union
Noah Baumbach's brash Marriage Story starts on a upbeat note. Nicole is staring in a Broadway-bound play directed by her husband,...
The Return of the Anti-Hero
Does American need an anti-hero? We live in a time of partisan bickering, of a deepening divide between rich and poor, of random...
The Sensational Sound of Silence
I recently watched an obscure 1950s Western called Time to Die. Made in Mexico and directed by Arturo Ripstein, a controversial filmmaker...
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