Last night’s film noir on Netflix Disk: PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953), written and directed by Sam Fuller, starring Richard Widmark, Thelma Ritter, and Jean Peters. And for some time you can be forgiven for thinking you’re watching something first-rate. Widmark is a low-level subway pickpocket who rifles through the purse of tough dame Peters, […]
The most ludicrous thing about all the social media outrage at the recently rediscovered John Wayne interview is the assumption promoted by rhetoric that this is some buried obscurity that only recently came to light. Folks, that interview was notorious THEN. The Playboy Interviews had a huge footprint in general. They didn’t just profile show-business […]
Originally published on Facebook. The emptiest goddamned thing you can say about any work of art is, “It’s over-rated.” This is a statement often dropped into a conversation like a turd, sometimes without any elaboration: just those two words, which are modified if at all only with the word “really.” These thoughts are prompted by […]