It Happened One Night
[See “Entry from June 18, 2008” under “My Diary”]
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Home Fries, written by Vince Gilligan and directed by Dean Parisot, stars Drew Barrymore as Sally, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks made pregnant by a relatively well-to-do married man called Henry. Henry’s wife Beatrice (Catherine O’Hara), having learned of his affair emotionally manipulates her two dutiful sons by an earlier marriage,…
Ours is a scary old world, all right, and we cling to our toys like children — but this is a point that it is way too easy to overdemonstrate.
The General’s Daughter, directed by Simon West from a screenplay by Christopher Bertolini and William Goldman, adapted from the novel by Nelson DeMille is yet another example of Hollywood’s grotesquely misconceived representation of life in our country’s armed forces where, we are constantly asked to believe, kinky sex vies with political plots and murder as…
What? You didn’t know that Nixon was assassinated? You must not have been paying attention to the Hollywood fantasy-factory
More super-heroes arrive to poison your children’s imaginations — but at least Pixar knows how to make them fun
A fantastical satire against bureaucracy whose real-world target is less than immediately recognizable
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