Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House

It is fascinating how, although Hollywood has implicitly believed in every crackpot conspiracy theory for decades and has been willing to attribute to the democratically elected government of the United States any and all perfidies, it retains a sentimental attachment to the idea of the presidency. The image of the good king dies hard in…

A political screed masquerading as a documentary about the crisis in consumer credit

Another amusingly incoherent apologia for prolonging male adolescence from the authors of Shaun of the Dead

Professional wrestling is truly postmodernism in sport, which makes it surprising to me that there have not been more documentaries like Beyond the Mat, directed by Barry Blaustein. This movie, though it is rather badly organized and tries to do too much, contains some marvelous, even unforgettable footage of what life is like behind the…

Beautiful people having funny adventures on the wrong side of the law and getting rich. You’ve just got to love them —  don’t you?

Great performances and a skillful evocation of provincial England in the 1960s, but a mean-spirited movie all the same