Frozen

Say what you like about the French, they’re better than we are at making neurosis interesting

A bit of anti-American propaganda that could have been so much more

In the Realm of the Senses is a Japanese film made twenty years ago by Nagisa Oshima. At the time it was considered shocking even by the relaxed standards of the day and it was seized by U.S. Customs Agents. What innocent times they seem! Nowadays we aren’t so much more depraved than people were…

Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life by Michael Paxton turns out to be a product of the Rand industry instead of a critical and dispassionate look at the life of the late novelist and philosopher. For anyone of critical temperament, watching it is only slightly less creepy than sitting through something called L. Ron Hubbard:…

A pack of left-wingers, familiar and unfamiliar, gets together to explain why the world needs to be protected from jobs and prosperity

A fine war movie in spite of its being pitched to an audience with a pacifist predisposition