JR Moehringer (Daniel Ranieri) has come home to Manhasset. To grandpa, an eccentric old-timer who is smarter than he lets on and lazier than you can imagine. His Long Island house is falling apart, paint chip by paint chip, and … Continue reading THE TENDER BAR
George Clooney’s 2019 adaptation for Hulu was faithful to Joseph Heller’s novel until it missed the mark. He condemned Yossarian to a Sisyphean hell rather than set him free and off into the world. Clooney’s deviation probably comes from a … Continue reading CATCH-22
A lecture may get your point across, but a story illustrates it better. And if you can smuggle in a little humor, it’s a better bet the medicine will go down. Irresistible got you hankering for more? Here are four … Continue reading Home Viewing: Satire Streams
We’re the ones who talked about AIDS when it was just being whispered. And we talked about civil rights when it wasn’t really popular. This academy—this group of people—gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting … Continue reading Born On This Day — May 6, 1961
The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it’s just to see what you learn for the next one. —Alfonso Cuarón Continue reading Born On This Day — November 28
If there was anything I learned from Roger Ebert, it was that movies are not what they’re about; they’re how they’re about what they’re about. Gravity is a movie about moving past tragedy. The how of it is accomplished by placing the subject in … Continue reading GRAVITY
It’s imperative for me to tell everybody that this is personal, it means a lot to me. You have to impart how much it means to you in a personal way, which will bring everybody into it, and get you … Continue reading Born On This Day — August 20
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