Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: “An unfaithful rich man walks into a bar and picks up a … More
Tag: PopMatters
Rooting for Harry Lime: ‘The Third Man’ As Morally Ambiguous Heterotopia
With 2015 the centenary of Orson Welles’ birth year (1915), cinemas everywhere have been celebrating, commemorating, and exhibiting classic movies … More
‘The Gamechangers’ Changes Nothing But the Actual Events
Constructed from court documents and interviews with unnamed persons, the BBC’s new factual drama, The Gamechangers professes to go behind … More
‘The Scandalous Lady W’ Is Scandalously Derivative of Better Dramas
Figuratively speaking, I imagine that somewhere in the underground vaults of the BBC there must have been a creative team … More
‘Citizen Kane’ Is a Labyrinth Without a Centre
There are numerous ways of describing Citizen Kane as some form of labyrinth. What lies at the centre of this … More
Hitchcock’s Final Steps on the Path to Destruction
“Once a man commits himself to murder, he will soon find himself stealing. The next step will be alcoholism, disrespect … More
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