Singapore City

Crazy Conspicuous Consumption

Crazy Rich Asians, Hollywood’s new romantic comedy about a Chinese-American young lady and her aristocratic Singaporean boyfriend attending a lavish high-society wedding, is ...

Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee

Spike Lee’s KkKrazyGlue

Spike Lee’s new movie BlacKkKlansman has received 100 percent thumbs up from 46 professional film critics aggregated by Rotten Tomatoes. This disgraceful unanimity is more ...

Review: The Incredibles 2

What proportion of the top creative artists in Hollywood, the heavyweight auteurs, are men of the right? This old question has come up again with the box office triumph of the ...

Geena Davis

For White Girls Who Have Considered (Career) Suicide

It’s been less than a month since actress Frances McDormand used her Oscar acceptance speech to push for the adoption of “inclusion riders” in entertainment-industry ...

Frances McDormand

Trophy Wife

Moments after actress Frances McDormand employed her victory speech at the Academy Awards to demand diversity quotas in moviemaking, she was taught a lesson in diversity, good and ...

Corey Feldman

The Casting Crib

As legions of Hollywood actresses step forth with lurid allegations against snub-nosed hedgehog Harvey Weinstein and others over their serial abuse of the casting couch, can a ...

Robert Blake

The Overlord of Oscar Bait

Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was a celebrated figure during the (perhaps now finally concluded) Bill and Hillary Era. In particular, he was the central string-puller of the ...

‘Blade Runner 2049’: A Mexican in Los Angeles

Blade Runner 2049 is a remarkably faithful sequel/tribute to the old noir science-fiction cult film. Although set in Los Angeles’ snowy summer of 2049, thirty years after the ...

Jordan Peele

An Open Letter to Jordan Peele

Former president Jimmy Carter is seen by some, rightly or wrongly, as someone who has never been terribly fond of Jews. I would argue that even if a case can be made that Carter ...

Riot Acting

The key moment in the self-destruction of the once great American city of Detroit over the past half century can be dated precisely to July 23, 1967, when blacks began the Detroit ...

The Tragedy of Doctor Who

The new Doctor Who is a woman. "€œAll the cool humans are thrilled,"€ cooed Mashable; "€œPissboys Are Melting Down,"€ added Dorkly (when did nerds start talking like ...

Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out

“€˜Get Out”€™? Get Your Money Back

Get Out, a remarkably racist kill-the-white-people horror movie that makes Django Unchained seem like My Dinner With Andre, is the box office and critical smash of the ...

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in La La Land

Everyone’s Gaga Over “€˜La La”€™

Will the curse of Oscar front-runnerhood undermine public enjoyment of La La Land? It would be delightful to stumble unwittingly upon this old-fashioned movie musical about a ...

Exploration, the Polynesian Way

Moana, the new Polynesian-princess animated feature from Disney, is like a less on-the-nose version of Interstellar, the 2014 Christopher Nolan science-fiction epic set on a dying ...

Andrew Garfield in Hacksaw Ridge

Mel Gibson: Back Into the Fray

Rather like Donald Trump's campaign for president in 2016, Mel Gibson's 2004 movie The Passion of the Christ was not popular in Beverly Hills. I overheard the following ...

“€˜Roast”€™ Writers: Ann Coulter Hurt Our Feelings!

The overall quality of Comedy Central's celebrity roasts might have declined measurably since the untimely death of Greg Giraldo (arguably the best roaster ever"€”sorry, Jeff ...


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