progressive politics and regressive entertainment. like peanut and butter.
January 13, 2012 9 Comments
The 2011 film of John Le Carré’s 1974 espionage novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy reminds us that there was terrorism before our current global state of affairs, and that governments were clearly involved, in a way we used to recognize.
January 6, 2012 1 Comment
Wet Hot American Summer (Netflix, IMDB) was released ten years ago. About three or four years ago, I started hearing it mentioned. A lot. It’s one of those cult movies that acquired a fandom following its failure at the box office. Written and directed by Michael Showalter and David Wain of the TV show The State, Wet Hot American Summer is set at a Jewish summer camp in 1981 and definitely captures the colors of the time. As in, literally, the clothes have the same horrid lack of style, we’re-tired-because-the-1970s-wore-us-out colors of 1981.
December 29, 2011 1 Comment
I’ve been catching up on my holiday viewing. From 1988. (Fun fact: Die Hard is set on Christmas Eve and was released in Uruguay on Christmas Day, 1988.) And did you know it was already a sequel? Novelist Roderick Thorp had written the book, The Detective, Nothing Lasts Forever (1979), as a sequel to The Detective (1966), which was made into a 1968 film with Frank Sinatra.
