Why do we watch bad movies, expecting disappointment? Akrasia is the Greek term for knowing the good, but not following it—an apt description.
Realism lite, how film and television suggest serious violence without actually including it, is exemplified in the 1988 buddy film…
A second season has not improved Disney's popular streaming series "The Mandalorian"
"Night Hunter" (2018), a weak serial killer thriller, is no "Night of the Hunter" (1955), a film next to "Citizen…
The culture of the exotic, fascinating underworld thrills us in "John Wick," not merely the well-choreographed gun-fu.
The 2016 film "Marauders" is a gunplay and bank robbery story that is not so bad that it's good.
"Sudden Fear" tells the tale of a playwright that married the wrong man and was almost written out of the…
In which I performatively answer the question with reference to an episode of The Mandalorian, whether one should write about…