When I think of a nice bedtime story, I think of Trotskyite music reviews. Here's a lovely review of the new Alicia Keys from noted music publication World Socialist Web Site: “Girl on Fire” is the album’s most recognizable single and its title track. One...
aesthetic stalinism
I'd have to say that my very favorite part of this little slice of comedy gold is the fact that Nolte considers a film based on a Mark Halperin book.
Even leaving aside the aesthetic Stalinism, any top-10 list of post-1960 movies that makes room for Zulu, Chariots of Fire, and The Pursuit of Happyness is a massive, massive drown.
Erik beat me to the Oliver Stone/Power Broker* project. And yet, I think it might be more promising than fellow Belaborer of the Obvious Alan Ball** doing a movie about George Tiller. Fans of actors reading lengthy position papers telling you things you already know...
This won't be surprising to longtime readers, but I agree with Dargis in almost every detail here. Plenty of great art has been made by extremely odious human beings and.
When it comes to political commentary, it's often very difficult to distinguish stupidity from shameless hackery, although in J-Pod's case it's clearly some from column A, some from column B..
...going Galt. Or, as Roy puts it, "[i]t seems the perpetual motion machine runs on whine."
Shorter some guy at John Nolte's Aesthetic Stalinism for Dummies: "Hollywood romantic comedies are, as a rule, dreary and cliched, with dumb scripts leading inexorably and implausibly to the conclusion.
Shorter some Pajamas Media hack: I have recently discovered that (Pakula's) All the President's Men, Saturday Night Fever, and Roots were works of fiction. Obviously, this was a conspiracy to.
You can't get a much better example of whining being central to one's political identity than John Nolte's alleged decade-long boycott of TV because of the possibility that someone might make a mild joke about an unpopular politician on his party's side. I suppose this...
As Sadly, No! and Mr. Bogg have already documented, Ben Shapiro's latest entry at Andrew Breitbart's Aesthetic Stalinism for Dummies is a classic. It actually starts out a little frighteningly.
Absolutely classic Goldberg. I couldn't even make up someone who talks about the "moral superstructure" of shitty George Lucas movies, and goes on to discuss silly ideas with even more.