We all know in the backs of our minds that Barack Obama’s incredible victory will eventually be followed by disappointment. But does it have to come so soon, and hit so hard? The answer will be yes, if Lawrence Summers is named …
Posted on: November 11th, 2008 | Comments (5)
Last weekend, a Russian anarchist revolutionary art group called War pulled a fast one on Prime Minister Putin. Or at least they thought they did. Russian revolutionaries sure do fall far from the tree these days.
On the night of November 7, a …
Posted on: November 10th, 2008 | Comments (1)
The first polls had just closed when the Republican Right’s “Agony of Defeat” moment arrived. It was just after 8 p.m. — right as Fox’s “America’s Election HQ” show returned from a commercial break, and Brit Hume welcomed viewers back …
Posted on: November 8th, 2008 | Comments (6)
Mass psychosis?
So by now you’ve probably heard something about this election that happened on Tuesday. There seemed to be a whole hoo-ha about it, people hugging and high-fiving in the streets, international rejoicing, everybody laughing and crying and gibbering. In …
Posted on: November 7th, 2008 | Leave Comment
Here’s a friendly warning for you: don’t count on the movies to get you through the holidays, any more than they got you through the Wall Street seizures or this gut-wrencher of an election. As bad as the …
Posted on: November 3rd, 2008 | Comments (1)
No way.
Actually, I refuse to review High School Musical 3. We all know it’s rotten.
Which brings me to my point: where the hell are the movies? I mean the ones for mass audiences, designed to make sentient beings …
Posted on: October 27th, 2008 | Leave Comment
You may not have noticed it, but a couple of weeks ago, the New York Times slipped in a story that completely contradicted a narrative that it had been building up for two straight months, one that was leading America into …
Posted on: October 23rd, 2008 | Comments (1)
Don’t be fooled by how amusing this image looks.
You ever sit through the rough cut of your friend’s independent film? Well, I have, lotsa times, God help me, so seeing Oliver Stone’s W. really brought back …
Posted on: October 20th, 2008 | Comments (1)
This is theater!
I went to a play recently, I’m ashamed to admit. It was a Tom Stoppard play called Rock ‘n’ Roll, which is embarrassing beyond words. It wasn’t my idea!
But even so, I went with …
Posted on: October 13th, 2008 | Leave Comment
Got ninety minutes to kill?
When you’re a young Have in a rich country, you’ve got a glorious wealth of time to waste, and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist is a movie that’s about young Haves, for …
Posted on: October 6th, 2008 | Leave Comment
The fix was in. There’s no other way to explain the disconnect between Sarah Palin’s performance in last night’s debate–which made me cringe so much that my forehead started to …
Posted on: October 3rd, 2008 | Leave Comment
Experimental film called The Debate
Don’t know if you were watching TV last Friday evening, but if you were, you noticed that all the network channels were running this bizarre experimental film called The Debate. It featured a 90-minute …
Posted on: September 29th, 2008 | Leave Comment
Gervais confronts his mortality in laxative form
Jeez, it just doesn’t pay to get your hopes up, you know? You see a preview for a movie about a guy who hates people and then sees ghosts and hates them …
Posted on: September 22nd, 2008 | Comments (1)
John McCain is making a big show of criticizing the government “bailout” of insurance giant AIG. But it turns out that AIG, which received $85 billion in US tax dollars earlier this week, is …
Posted on: September 19th, 2008 | Leave Comment
Last weekend, I was at an opening of a new Tibetan restaurant by the Red Square with a bunch of American expats. The new Cold War never came up, but that was because nobody wanted to ruin a …
Posted on: September 16th, 2008 | Leave Comment
