Stairway to Heaven (A Matter of Life and Death)

A movie about story-telling and its power for good and evil — especially over the story-tellers themselves. Not to be missed!

Idle Hands, directed by Rodman Flender (can there really be someone with such a name?), is another in the recent spate of teen movies. With what can only be considered predictable unsuccess, it tries to marry the old-fashioned, rather campy moralism of the old-time teen slasher movie with the hip, happenin’, po-mo wit of Scream….

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

. . . And now Lewis Schwarzberg raises the question: does being a patriot require you to be a sentimentalist as well?

A glib and unpersuasive attempt to identify the primitive and savage “other” with the super-rich