Third Man, The

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“Age is unnecessary,” as King Lear ruefully noticed, though there is more than one way of disposing of it

The Postman by Kevin Costner was made about 25 years too late. This is the kind of thing that would have seemed “deep,” or possibly “heavy” to the drugged-out hippies of the Vietnam era, but is just laughable now. Even the audience of film critics I saw it with laughed out loud at several of…

A well made Spanish film about a couple of prostitutes that flirts a little too blatantly with sentimentalism

A serious man maybe, but not a serious movie

Pop cultural fantasy as a re-mythologization of the culture in the “progressive” interest — From The American Spectator of January-February, 2014