Asides

...no wonder people social-climb in New York, since it has more genuine social mobility than London or Paris, where clothes, accents, and manners reveal all too much about origins and…

Sometimes it's either too hard to resist, or all too called-for. The snark, I mean. An Oscar prognosticator earns a pastiche, and at the same time, I laud a new…

Just one of the many trenchant, multi-layered, altogether sublime images from the divine Max Ophuls' 1955 Lola Montes, an oft-mutilated and misrepresented masterpiece that's soon to come in a beautifully…

It hurts, I gotta tell ya.  The actual nominations contain some real interesting choices. Who knew that District 9 would be the wild card entry in the Best Picture tenplex?…

So, Mountain's classic of cowbell rock Mississippi Queen popped up on the iPod last night, as it will, and once again I was reminded that while I comprehend what the…

Bob Hope catches up on his reading in The Iron Petticoat, a very peculiar 1956 picture in which Hope plays an Army guy who's trying to convert a defecting Russian…