Good Is The New Bad – Film Reviews And More

David Denby, one of two film reviewers for the New Yorker takes a look at the teen step-dancing film “How She Move” this week. Denby is usually a fusty old stick-in-the-mud, but like a blind squirrel, he occasionally stumbles into an excellent piece of analysis. He begins the review with a fantastic summation of everything [...]

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If hope, as Emily Dickinson wrote “is the thing with feathers”, then hype is the two hundred foot tall scaly sea-monster with an appetite for concrete, perched in midtown Manhattan and singing a song of destruction. It started with a trailer last summer, too cool to even have a name on it. Then months of [...]

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In Chinatown, the malignant Noah Cross remarks that “politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.” He could have easily added filmmakers to that list. Hollywood is as brutal a business as any on the planet. It’s also fond of snubbing great works, and showering accolades upon lesser contributions if [...]

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