‘Arthur the King’ is best movie in this decade, so far
(March 18) Arthur the King, with actor Mark Wahlberg and a mangy dog named Arthur leading an extreme-sports team across 400 miles of jungle, is the best movie I’ve seen […]
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Kurt Russell tells actors to stop spouting off
(Dec. 3) We’ve all become so accustomed by now to Hollywood actors spouting off about politics that it shocks us when a big star spouts off against Hollywood politicking. That’s […]
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Of movies and (especially) Mardi Gras
Three pieces on current culture. For the full columns, follow the links embedded in the headlines. New Orleans Mardi Gras can be family-friendly fun (Feb. 27): A New Orleans native’s […]
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Academy Awards just can’t get ‘Yesterday’ right
Jan. 13. The Academy Awards didn’t get the Oscar nominations right Monday morning because they didn’t get Yesterday right. The joyously creative movie Yesterday, accurately described in Forbes as the […]
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Brees, the horrid NFL, and a great movie genre
Five pieces on sports and culture. For the full columns, follow the links embedded in the headlines. Absurd politics of Time and Sports Illustrated help show why Americans chose Trump […]
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Hollywood’s ‘intimacy coordinators’ give audiences a raw deal
August 6: Hollywood still can’t get sex right. The September issue of the Atlantic features a lengthy article on newly #MeToo-ish Hollywood suddenly hiring “intimacy coordinators” and formalizing other protections so that semiexplicit sex […]
