Lou Aguilar
I can remember the exact moment I became politically aware. It was on November 4, 1979, when a group of radical Islamic Iranians smashed into the United States Embassy and took 66 Americans hostage. Up to that time, as a…
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;…
When we last left Marshall Armstrong — more famously known as Little Big Horn survivor George Armstrong Custer — in Armstrong Rides Again!, the Latin American island where he served as army commander was melting from volcano lava and sinking…
What’s amusing about Bros — the new gay romantic comedy from the makers of blockbuster straight romantic comedies — is not that it bombed last opening weekend to become a historic disaster. It’s that the failure took Hollywoke and those…
Marilyn Monroe is such a well-covered tragic figure, especially for the obvious dichotomy between her sex goddesshood and purer Norma Jeane Mortenson persona, that I had little interest in seeing the latest fictionalization of her, Blonde, until my girlfriend said…
To quote a close friend of mine, “Pope Francis and Joe Biden are the Bizarro World counterparts to Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan.” Where the earlier pair dedicated themselves to defeating an evil yet Hydra-like ideological system, and…
Watching Donald Trump’s Ohio rally Saturday reminded me of the best scene in Gone With the Wind, which comes early in the movie at the Twelve Oakes barbecue. It’s a brilliantly constructed sequence wherein Scarlett O’Hara’s (Vivien Leigh) egoistical pursuit…
This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this…
Hollywood loves to produce screen fare about liberal lawyers who challenge the powerful right-wing Establishment machine and win. By far the best of these is Sidney Lumet’s 1982 masterpiece, The Verdict, featuring Paul Newman in his finest late role, with…
