Exposing political and moral agendas in movies
Indulge the self, you Millennials out there, because what could be more important than what you want? Other people? What other people? That’s the all-too-easy-to-swallow message – and it’s a lousy one …
Tough to tell whether The Invisible Man is simply the name of a new movie or a commentary on the way men in American society have been minimized – and boys feminized …
China. Big place. Lots of people. Weird food. And some heavy-duty influence in Hollywood. Hollywood? Yep. When we’re talking about movie agendas it’s no longer just left-wing quiche-eating yutzes in …
Keep an eye cocked throughout this review for the word “tedious” in all its grammatical forms, because it will recur. “Bland, witless and ludicrous’ – Elizabeth Banks’s reboot of this …
Oy — not God again! Richard Dawkins — English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, author, emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, one-time University of Oxford’s Professor for Public Understanding of Science and …
Remember Camelot? No, not the Kennedys. The musical. It was a play about striving, reaching, questing. “To dream the impossible dream. To fight the unbeatable foe. To try when your …
If you’ve got a penis…… HOLY CRAP ARE YOU IN FOR IT NOW! Nothing with testosterone escapes unmutilated in today’s red-hot revenge genre. A pair of new movies – A Vigilante, starring …
What the hell is Harvey Weinstein doing smack in the middle of a freakin’ Avengers movie? No, I don’t mean the blubbery, bullying groper (and worse) of women has donned …
For once, environmentalism is just a red herring. Sure, Happy Feet does touch on green themes, with humans cluttering up the Arctic mainland with refuse and overfishing the surrounding oceans. …
Seriously, what is up with teenage girls saving the world from thickheaded adults? Katniss Everdeen, Tris Prior, and now Moana. Though there is much going for the movie about the …