(A handful of spoilers follow.) My love for Sacha Baron Cohen’s in-character mockumentaries, and how they so often reveal the true heart of America, is well-documented. Rumors of a new Borat project began to surface earlier in the year with reported sightings of Baron Cohen’s Kazakhstani journalist character in L.A.; the film was finally announced […]
As part of a holiday movie exchange among a group of friends, I was gifted Shoot ‘Em Up. it comes well-recommended, as it hits many of the things I want to see in an action movie: It drops us immediately into the action without any explanation; it keeps moving and stays tight (86 minutes!); the action […]
Police Squad! has a notorious history that’s been told many times over by now, a brilliant comedy by Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker that ran for all of six episodes in 1982 before ABC pulled it, famously saying that the comedy was too smart for their viewers and required too much attention. While revealing a sad truth about […]
Spoilers for Joker, obviously. Also, a very minor, relatively vague spoiler for The Shield. After all the conversation around Joker, some of it truly ridiculous, I decided I had to see the film for myself to judge. I’d heard a wide range of opinions on it going in: It’s bad; it’s pretty good but not […]
I’m not a nostalgic person. I didn’t grow up in a time or place I feel particularly warm about or would like to go back to. But A Christmas Story is my favorite Christmas movie. I’ll tell you how I reconcile those things. My favorite period pieces– like this, Freaks and […]
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