Nov 21Frozen In Time: Nobody’s Fool“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” - William Faulkner Legendary Actor Paul Newman bestowed one of the best performances of his illustrious fifty-year plus career twenty-nine years ago in Director Robert Benton’s “Nobody’s Fool.” Newman was sixty-nine years old at the time and had already created a…7 min read7 min read
Nov 6Colors: 35 YearsBefore street gang members aimed the home video cameras at themselves paradoxically recording their crimes, they had the camera aimed at them by the Director and star of Easy Rider. Dennis Hopper’s Los Angeles gangland opus Colors was a wide-ranging revelation of a societal emergency that was indeed troubling right…9 min read9 min read
Oct 12The White Men Don’t Know When To Hang It Up Report 10/12/2023White Men Never Know When It’s Time To Hang It Up Because They’re Enabled To Feel Like They Can Do Anything They Want And Are Never Told That They’re Failures Or That Their Time Is Up. We look at what’s happening in their world this week…. No, your eyes aren’t…4 min read4 min read
Oct 11“Be Useful” by Mr. UselessverseArnold Schwarzenegger has seemed to be in constant self-promotional mode his entire life. From promoting his reign as Mr. Universe to being on every morning tv show and late-night talk shows hocking whatever latest movie he was in. Today he is still appearing on countless podcasts and YouTube videos while…6 min read6 min read
Oct 4Seductive Compromise: 40 Years Of ScarfaceThe movie opens with a title card description of why 125,000 Cubans fled their home country for Miami, Florida because of Fidel Castro and how 25,000 of them had criminal records. A bleak music cue. Somber and ominous invoking a sense of dread. An invitation to what promises to be…7 min read7 min read
Sep 21Nobody Wants To Work (Here) Anymore.Remember the days when people worked so hard for such little money they could barely scrape by or not get by at all just to make millionaires and billionaires who run small business and fortune five hundred companies richer? Are those days gone? This seems to be the burning question…4 min read4 min read
Aug 29Making Copies: Rob Schneider’s Short FallFor a guy who started his career on Saturday Night Live in the 1980’s having a stand-up comedy special airing only on Fox News may seem like a long hard fall until you realize that plummeting from SNL and into the right-wing abyss isn’t that rare. It’s happened to a…3 min read3 min read
Aug 27Crashing The System: A Leftist Delusion & A Nazi DreamConservatism and neo fascism rely on leftists to fall right into their set traps and do their jobs of trying to end Democracy for them. Like a communist nutcase killing John F. Kennedy. Electing Ronald Reagan, The George Bush’s, and Donald Trump. Claiming an election was rigged to lead to…7 min read7 min read
Aug 25The Man From NowhereHe had the looks and talent to be the leading man but was often relegated to playing the villain. One of the best character actors of his generation if not of all time. Tall, blonde almost white hair and fair-skinned, with a leanness that made him seem even taller. Julian…3 min read3 min read
Aug 25Bulworth: Warren Beatty’s Missed ShotWarren Beatty is usually right on target with politics. His 1981 Epic REDS is a stone-cold masterpiece. A classic film that he wrote, directed, produced, and starred about the communist party. But in Bulworth he misses the target. Bulworth could possibly have been a combination of REDS and HEAVEN CAN…4 min read4 min read
