Don't Bother
[See “Frozen in Ideological Time” in The American Spectator of January-February, 2014 under “Articles”]
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Once old men used to tell the war stories from their youth; now they tell the anti-war stories. Both should be taken with a grain of salt.
Josh and Jonas Pate, co-directors of Deceiver, have all the vices of the Coen brothers—mainly pretentiousness and self-conscious artiness—without any of the virtues. Their film is not funny and not even particularly intelligent, although it tries very hard to be the latter. So much so, indeed, that the three main characters are introduced to us…
A delightful return to the — amusingly tweaked — conventions of silent film for an unexpectedly moving if familiar love story
When the winner of the Big Game lottery jackpot of $197 million didn’t immediately come forward to claim his prize recently, newspapers were reduced to running an AP photo of the shop in Boston where the winning ticket was sold. In the photo a young man is shown from behind as he affixes a sign…
A good-hearted Australian movie that just about rises to the level of being worth watching
Deep Impact, directed by Mimi Leder from a script by Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin, is one of what I take to be a new breed of Hollywood disaster flicks. Modeled on Independence Day, these are apocalyptic in scale, overburdened with special effects and pitched to a younger teen audience, but they are still…
