True Grit: A Spielberg Moment
Jeff Bridges. Photo: Paramount The original True Grit (1969) is a very good Western, well directed by Henry Hathaway, featuring a script by Marguerite Roberts and a part for John…
No Country for Old Men: Blood in the Sand
Javier Bardem. Photo: Miramax When I started reading Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”, it took a while before I was hooked, until the author’s way of conjuring a desolate, bleak future…
Bad Santa
It begins with a Santa throwing up in the alley behind a bar. He then goes on swearing, being mean to children and sodomizing fat women. The bad Santa is…
O Brother Where Art Thou: Men of Constant Sorrow
Photo: Universal In Preston Sturges’s classic film Sullivan’s Travels (1941), Joel McCrea’s character, a Hollywood movie director, sets out to experience “the real world” as a way of preparing himself…