Charlie Chaplin vs. America
I just finished reading this book about Charlie Chaplin’s film work, as well as how ultra-conservatives in the US government and media banished him for two decades. It prompted me to write this.
A Class Divided
For Martin Luther King Day, here’s an apropos story about how a teacher figured out a way to deal with the subject of racism in her third-grade classroom in an all-white small town in Iowa the day after he was murdered.
Now With Even More Den
I returned to the Reel Spoilers podcast this week to sit in for Kevin and talk about “Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera” with Tom and Joe. Listen/watch here.
Movie Review: “The Critic”
I finally caught up with this movie starring Ian McKellan as an acerbic theater critic who resorts to blackmail to keep his job and reputation. Here’s my review, which is not nearly as harsh as most of his.
Movie Review: “Nickel Boys”
Here’s my review of the movie version of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two Black men struggling to survive in a brutal reform school in the segregated south of the sixties.
Demi and Pam
There’s been a lot of buzz in Hollywood about Demi Moore and Pamela Anderson which I don’t think they deserve. Here’s why.