Louis Brandeis’s observation that “government is the potent, omnipresent teacher” found sad affirmation in 2022 when, a month after Russia invaded Ukraine, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock. The act of aggression came as this generation’s Pearl Harbor, Kennedy Assassination, Space…
After a decades-long dearth, theater audiences are suddenly spoiled for choice of whodunit mysteries. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is the second whodunit written and directed by Rian Johnson, after his acclaimed 2019 Knives Out, with a third promised….
We haven’t done a 5QT in this space in a while. It seems like I’m always saying that. Maybe it’s the fact that things are always so demonstrative or instructive as of late that they deserve full columns instead of…
Five hours, baby. Of course, by Netflix standards, it’s the flicker of an eyelid, the flap of a hummingbird’s wing, the life expectancy of a sandwich in the vicinity of Jerry Nadler. But given that the five hours in question,…
This commentary (I won’t call it a review) requires this preliminary disclaimer: I have a business connection with the Norwegian miniseries, The Lørenskog Disappearance, now streaming on Netflix. I supplement my retirement by translating Norwegian movie and TV production scripts,…
Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state of the United Kingdom and 14 other sovereign nations, but not for long. I’m not referring to her mortality, an attribute that she shares with all of us except for Cher and…
Netflix Is a Joke is the name of a Netflix comedy festival that was held in Los Angeles from April 28 to May 8. It’s a curious title, because in comedy circles Netflix is indeed a joke — a streaming…
As “woke corporations” like Disney begin to learn that American shareholders and consumers are sick of companies virtue-signaling at the cost of stock value and in defiance of Middle American mainstream family values, one of the biggest stories has been…
“When I was young, if you were a flight attendant, and you were a lady, we would call you a stewardess,” Norm Macdonald informs in a discussion about neutered language during his comedy special that debuted on Memorial Day. “And,…
