The French Connection has kept itself in the classic-films discussion for the better part of five decades based on a single car chase.

What is it about gambling-related B movies with the word “runner” in the title? Why can’t they suck less?

Couch Baron and I planned to do a dialogue-style review of Bad Girls, but then CB fell asleep.

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From my recap of last night’s kind-of-off episode of Girls, “Hard Being Easy,” over at Press Play:
The Marnie/Charlie storyline picks up shortly after the end of the last episode, and it’s well done—but it has …

You could view Myra Breckinridge as a nervy meta-commentary on identity in Hollywood, on narrative recycling, on the tragic self-regard of the heroine of Sunset Boulevard, on the rejections of the aged and the outlier. …

“One must be brave if one is to take the wheel.” — Margaret Thatcher, teaching her daughter to drive, and the rest of us how not to write
Imagine the movies that the life of Margaret …

“…Actors.” — everyone
Marilyn Monroe and her myth: spare me. I just really don’t care. I have compassion for her, for what she must have gone through that opened that maw of insecurity and narcissism, but …

I have no idea what the movie is trying to do. I only know that it fails on almost every level save the acting, and even that isn’t great; it’s merely not as disastrous as …

Everything. K, great: on to Film #2!
…Fine, it doesn’t get everything wrong. It’s not necessarily objectively terrible. The writing does a handful of things I can’t stand, though, and starts doing them immediately, so I …