Badlands (1973)

A fresh and amusing take on the career of a real-life gay con-man which suffers from an all-too typical lack of moral focus

Starship Troopers directed by Paul Verhoeven and based on the book by Robert Heinlein is a custom-made vehicle for the expression of what I take to be the Hollywood worldview. In the fanciful future utopia it conjures up for us, the fearsome tide of poor, dirty, low class, and superstitious people, with skins both swarthy…

Goodness reduced to helplessness in the face of evil is the characteristic feature of the moral universe of today’s popular culture

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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, directed by Clint Eastwood from John Berendt’s best seller stars John Cusack as John Kelso, a journalist sent to Savannah by Town and Country magazine to cover one of the highlights of the social season there, a Christmas party given by Mr Jim Williams (Kevin Spacey). But…

The comic foundations of the original Barbershop are not sturdy enough to bear the weight of another such edifice