Wolf of Wall Street — Glorifying Psychopaths
In an open letter to Martin Scorsese and Leonard DiCaprio the daughter of the man DiCaprio plays in the film …
Tag Archives: Movies:America
Noam Chomsky – In Anime
You don’t have to read a lot of Noam Chomsky to get an idea of the muscle of his mind. …
Nebraska: Another American Family
I don’t know how Nebraskans will feel about Alexander Payne‘s new movie, Nebraska but for one who has driven across …
Company K — Americans in France, WW I
William March’s 1933 novel, Company K, about an American Marine company in France for 9 months at the end of …
Torn — A Movie that tears many ways
When an American film opens with two attractive people in an American style house canoodling in Urdu you suspect you’ve …
We Steal Secrets — The WikiLeaks Documentary
I haven’t seen The Fifth Estate, Bill Condon’s commercial version of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks yet but last night I …
The Butler: 34 Years in the White House
We joined with many last night who have appreciated Lee Daniel’s production of The Butler, a fictionalized take on the …
Elmore Leonard is El Hombre
Elmore Leonard has gone, leaving the finest, gun-tottinist gallery of characters on the range and in the hood this side …
Blue Jasmine — Woody’s Latest
There is something about watching a Woody Allen movie that always starts me squirming in my seat. Blue Jasmine, his …
Why We Fight: Unmaking the Myth
Eugene Jareck’s 2005 documentary, Why We Fight, available at Netflix, is still a relevant film to watch, even though the motivating …
The Company You Keep — An Old Liberal Looks at Old Radicals
It’s long been a puzzle to me why the sizzling years in the United States from say, 1963 to 1975, …
The Life of Pi: To Believe or Not to Believe
I am trying to understand why I came out grumpy rather than enthused from Ang Lee’s spectacular CGI movie, The …