Bonnie and Clyde

A trip down memory lane to those dim and distant days before September 11^th when everyone in Hollywood knew that America’s armed services were manned by criminals and psychopaths

Early on in Keeping the Faith, Father Brian Finn (Edward Norton) advises his worshiping flock, most of whom appear to be worshiping him, that “faith is different from religion,” and he makes it clear which of the two he prefers. Religion is old, stuffy, rule-bound, while faith is personal—“a feeling, a hunch,” he says. I’m…

The arrogance of the evil Disney empire as it colonizes the world, both in space and in time, on behalf of spoiled American pre-teens continues. Characteristically, it has chosen for its next property to be conquered and laid waste a peculiarly inappropriate vehicle in Tarzan. The story of Tarzan, that is, absolutely depends on the…

A portrait of spiritual and emotional emptiness among the academic classes — that may or may not be spiritually and emotionally empty itself

An extended dirty joke — that is, a very funny though obscene movie whose humor is, alas, inseparable from its obscenity

A serious man maybe, but not a serious movie