A movie thread encountered on a friend’s Facebook wall included a reply that, in all seriousness and with no leavening irony, painted THE GODFATHER and THE FRENCH CONNECTION in particular, the movies of the early seventies in general, as the dark age that STAR WARS rescued us from. Gad. God. Gad. When I reacted with […]
Look, I’m going to explain this in terms you might be able to understand. I like chocolate cake just fine. I think chocolate cake is one of the things that makes life worth living. As a fat guy, I not only return to chocolate cake more often than is healthy for me, but can actually […]
Every child knows that certain adults are enemies of wonder. These adults are not just scornful of fantasy. They are determined predators of it. They may not actually rip a comic book or a DVD out of that child’s hands, but they will let that child know that such pursuits are garbage, and that taking […]