Becket is a Drama about Hierarchies of allegiance; allegiances to Honor, Aesthetics, race, King and God
Fun little maritime action-comedy, a typical example of a 60's comedy, though without any of the weird extravagances. It mostly works, though non of the characters are very special and neither are most of the jokes, though some do work. The basic story is that a bumbling officer gets his clothes and identity stolen by a prostitute who now pretends she is him, he ends up being shanghiad, she ends up...
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Watching the weird and witchy “Jonah Hex,” I idly wondered whether critics knew what to make of, say, “A Fistful of Dollars.” Take it away, New York Times guy! A Fistful of Dollars...
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Lifestyle At the conclusion of Dr. Strangelove, as the world was about to end, the boys in the War Room passed the time by indulging in assorted survival fantasies, as this scene, quoted from the...
PJ Media In the Aeneid of Virgil, the character Laocoön warns his compatriots about the Trojan Horse left at the gates of the city. “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts” -- an aphorism...
Lifestyle Somewhere, there is a fist-pumping Hollywood suit. Just as the star-studded movie about an astronaut stranded on Mars is released, NASA drops breaking news that there might be...
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Ed Driscoll It's long been said that Washington is Hollywood for ugly people; a decade ago, John McCain flipped that equation over and said that "Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded." Asking,...
PJ Media An incident involving a B-52 carrying two thermonuclear bombs that broke up in mid-air over Goldsboro, North Carolina in 1961 almost resulted in a detonation according to a document recently...
Lifestyle Many writers and critics have suggested that the Disney Studios has cultivated such a rarefied image of Walt Disney that some people think of him as just a character -- like Betty Crocker...
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Lifestyle Thanks to my mother’s English heritage, and her dedicated preservation of it, I may be one of the few non-British viewers to have seen the original House of Cards long before the American...
From the transcript of the Darkstream:
So there was very, very disappointing news for Star Wars fans today just a few hours...
Recently I saw two movies that presented a remarkable contrast. They are not at all similar in theme; but in structure and meaning they embody two diametrically opposed concepts of film-making, indeed...
Civil disobedience by Ted Swanson on March 16, 2013
A recurring comic theme in the film Dr. Strangelove is the juxtaposition of obedient social etiquette contrasted to nuclear apocalypse looming...
The Poz Button 33 - Goldfinger + James Bond
By: Jay Dyer I don’t often asked children’s films, though I’m often asked (my quiver is presently barren). Also, this analysis is full on mansplaining and I’m man-spreading...