the passionate moviegoer

Traditionally, right-wingers have gleefully trivialized/branded Hollywood as an evil factory for liberal propaganda, usually invoking the ...

In the words of Howard Beale, the unhinged newscaster created by Paddy Chayefsky, “ I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anym...

David Beaird's "It Takes Two," from 1988, is an unusually accomplished and knowing little film, at once enchantingly funn...

A good writer is a magician of sorts, a fabulist who can make the trite seem, well, fabulous. Thomas McGuane certainly qualifies as a go...

  Or, Rain already, rain on her parade! Do it! Willam Wyler's "Funny Girl" (1968) is the final candidate for my disr...