Political conspiracy films were so common in the Seventies that some people were probably getting sick of them, but today they stand as a rich
“Enemy of the State” (1998) is a link from the Seventies to the Nineties to today as it illustrates spy-state apparatuses at the point of
Of Agatha Christie’s first four Mary Westmacott novels, the fourth — “The Rose and the Yew Tree” (1948) – is my new favorite. The title
Writer-director Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up” (2021, Netflix) makes fun of almost everything in American pop culture and government today. It’s intelligent, but rarely uproariously
When I saw “V for Vendetta” in theaters in 2006, having gone in mostly cold, it washed over me like a new, surprising experience. Although
Writer-director Alexander Payne’s breakthrough film, “Election,” was somewhat buried among the glut of teen classics in 1999. That’s appropriate, because it’s more timeless and less
Writer David Mamet – with Barry Levinson directing – switches his focus from the small cons of “House of Games” and the like to the
After five seasons, “House of Cards” (Netflix) had started to stumble a bit. What had started off as a sleazy, dark-room, behind-the-scenes political thriller had
This blog series chronicles my first viewing of the complete MCU movie saga. I’ll examine each film under various categories that reflect popular discussion points.
Michael’s “Weiner” review, Top 10 films of 2016, Medium, Feb. 27, 2017