Exposing political and moral agendas in movies
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 …
In Jewish lore, the golem — a soulless and violent creature fashioned from clay who wreaks terrible vengeance on anti-semites — is powered by kabbalistic magic. In this year’s The Golem, …
The word “update” is swiftly becoming Hollywood-speak for “hot mess.” From Noah to A Wrinkle in Time, it’s in vogue to paste modern social-justice messages into classics, sacrificing the elements …