I owe Thank You for Smoking an apology. A little while back, you may recall, I harshed on it a bit for having confused and contradictory political impulses. Which is still, I think, true – but what I only sort of realized then is that for a film to have confused politics implies that it’s […]

Sometimes people accuse me of not having fun at movies. This is not true. I have a lot of fun at movies, else I wouldn’t see so damn many of them. What is probably true is that I have a funny sense of fun – sophomoric comedies and explosions leave me stone cold, whereas a […]