Don't Bother
[See “Eastwoodian Aftermaths,” The American Spectator, February, 2007 under “Articles”]
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What art can there be in the portrayal of that which we have no business witnessing?
Of The Edge, written by David Mamet and directed by Lee Tamahori, it must be said that we should be grateful for what it does not do. It does not make the billionaire, Charles Morris (Anthony Hopkins) into a predictable rich-man villain, or even into a soulless, unpleasant character who stands aside as the real…
The American distributors who refused an American market to Adrian Lyne’s new film version of Lolita until it was already booked for its first run on Showtime, the cable network (beginning on August 2), said that they did so on the grounds that the film was no good. Of course, these are the same people…
An often funny but ultimately pretty trivial movie about the pain of adolescents with absent fathers
Somewhere near the end of The Insider, written by Eric Roth and directed by Michael Mann, we overhear a TV announcer talking about “a fraud perpetrated on the American people”—by which he means the tobacco companies’ concealment from public view of what they know of the harm caused by their product. But the real fraud…
A movie about abortion that makes Juno or Knocked Up look as trivial and sentimental as most other Hollywood products
