The franchise of Bond, James Bond has suffered the same fate as some other companies in corporate America: it has…
Acting Naturally: The Magic in Great Performances By David Thomson (Knopf, 288 pages, $30) Eighty-two years old this month, David…
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree. Where Alph, the sacred river ran, Through caverns measureless to…
In an episode of the late, great sitcom The King of Queens, Doug Heffernan (Kevin James) and his wife, Carrie…
Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna Edited by Noah Isenberg; translated by Shelley Frisch (Princeton…
The promise of a new year is that we have another chance to start fresh and recommit ourselves to our…
Critic, schmitic. How can you pretend to be engaged in objective aesthetic appraisal when you’re talking about movies that you…
The most noxious thing about wokeness is not its inability to create great art, but its need to replace it…
I’ve always been of two minds about Quentin Tarantino. His movies parody and pay tribute to genres, both literary and…
