Reviews, observations, and musings on classic cinema. Friday, November 16, 2007. Black and White, 83 minutes. Here is a movie in which nothing really happens. There are no action scenes, no nudity, no significant violence to speak of, and certainly no explosions or special effects.

Sunday, November 25, 2007. No Country for Old Men. Was released in 2005, it was considered a minor Cormac McCarthy novel. Which is about the equivalent of saying.

Sunday, March 20, 2011. Is done in by its convoluted and implausible plot. The foreman at the Glen Canyon Dam. In Arizona where the boys are working. It goes downhill from there.

A segment of New York City culture. Wednesday, December 10, 2008. Saturday, November 29, 2008. The novelist Théophile Gautier once cracked that no man becomes a critic until he proves to himself that he cannot be a poet. But here comes Chuck Klosterman, the pop culture observer, making the transition to novelist with.