Raiders of the Lost Ark

Comic gangsters reassure us that, even in the most civilized of countries, civilization is for suckers.

My Best Friend’s Wedding by P.J. Hogan (written by Ronald Bass) is not as awful as I expected it to be, given that it stars my least favorite actress, Julia Roberts, as Julianne, the gal who discovers she’s in love with a man she thought was her best friend when he announces he’s getting married…

Alas for Haiti! Its rulers are crooks and thugs, its religion is voodoo and its heroes are communists

News flash from Errol Morris: America’s war in Vietnam was a big mistake! Come and join him in ridiculing Robert McNamara, one of its last living architects

America may be a nation of greedy moral relativists, only waiting for a good opportunity to turn criminal, but it’s not so bad as France!

Having once lived in the area served by Channel 6 (Harrisburg, York, Lancaster, Lebanon), where Russ Richards (John Travolta) works as celebrity weather man in Nora Ephron’s amusing Lucky Numbers, I can assure you that not everybody in Central Pennsylvania is a moron. Nor would anyone but a supercilious Hollywood type suppose that “Harrisburg’s most…