Tag: John Lithgow
“Letting” Foxes in the Henhouse: Killers of the Flower Moon
It’s only fitting that the word “Osage,” what the French decided to call the Native American tribe that’s actually named Wazhazhe, loosely translates to “calm [Read More…]
An “Ear Witness”: The Sound and Fury of Blow Out
Each Brian De Palma film, in its own unique way, says something about the auteur’s self-perception, as well as his darkly tinctured views on this [Read More…]
Late Night Does Its Best to Implement Tenets of a The Devil Wears Prada Formula, But Stumbles Through the (Movie Theater) Airwaves
Had Paul Feig directed Mindy Kaling’s Late Night, as originally intended, of course, there would have been a certain meta ironic element. For the bulk [Read More…]
All Tears Flow From the Same Source: Beatriz At Dinner
The class divide between the poor and the rich isn’t a subject unexplored in American cinema, and yet, it takes on a new and darker [Read More…]
The Accountant Needed to Happen Just to Make the Profession Seem Less Dull
Maybe the only other profession as “unsexy” as accountant is paralegal. There’s very little room in the field to finesse into, shall we say, an [Read More…]