“Something very worrying is happening in France.”
Writing Summer of Long Knives meant spending a lot of time immersed in the crimes of the Nazi regime. It would be pleasant to imagine that those crimes, and the mindset…
42 Since ’71 (Part 2)
Click here for Part 1. Last week I covered the first ten of the list of my forty-two favorite movies made since the year of my birth, 1971. Here's the…
42 Since ’71 (Part 1)
Julia Sweeney, she of Saturday Night Live and Letting Go Of God, describes a fun idea for a best movie list in her latest blog post: I went on a Mike Leigh bender…
Oh, The Things I Saw (May 2014 edition)
May was a light movie month for me, but I still saw some worthwhile stuff, in addition to revisiting an apocalyptic piece of crap I had to rescreen for my…
Dashiell Hammett’s The Glass Key
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett My rating: 5 of 5 stars Dorothy Parker once said that "there is entirely too little screaming about the work of Dashiell Hammett." True…