In 2020, Donald Trump was impeached by the United States House of Representatives and later acquitted by the United States Senate; The United Kingdom formally withdrew from the European Union; COVID-19 wreaked havoc on world health and economic systems; Massive protests erupted in the US in response to police brutality against minorities, particularly the death… Continue reading The world turned upside down: A look back at 2020
Tag: Spike Lee
The thin man and OJ ate some grass
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945) When famed married detectives Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy) visit his parents, they are unwillingly pulled into yet another caper in the fifth and penultimate film of the Thin Man series. Just like every other detective series from Agatha Christie to Scooby Doo, you know Nick… Continue reading The thin man and OJ ate some grass
Heaven knows you’ve been unfaithful, Mr. X
Malcolm X (1992) Minor criminal Malcolm Little (Denzel Washington) is arrested for robbing the home of a wealthy white couple and sentenced to eight to ten years in prison because of his association with white women. In prison, he joins the Nation of Islam led by Elijah Muhammad and changes his name to Malcolm X. After he… Continue reading Heaven knows you’ve been unfaithful, Mr. X
That’s not a boy, it’s a man!
Oldboy (2013) Josh Brolin is perfectly cast as Joe Doucett an outwardly menacing, but inwardly heroic figure. Elizabeth Olsen (younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley) radiates charisma as Marie Sebastian. Sharlto Copley was great in District 9 (2009) and I liked him in The A-Team (2010), but he’s not menacing enough as The Stranger, and, at… Continue reading That’s not a boy, it’s a man!