Category Archives: BOOKS

A tin ear for dialogue makes this hackneyed gangster tale a chore and a half

Historical fiction meets a whodunnit in an 800-page doorstop of an epic

Love in the time of typhus

BOOKS Two ways to kill your darlings

In a pair of rock bios, one comes to praise Caesar; the other to bury him
MOVIES Parasite – The Best Film of 2019

From a South Korean social satire, to superheroes, Star Wars, and Scorsese, that’s 2019 at the movies, baby.
MOVIES ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’

A spoiler-free appreciation for the very large third film in the third trilogy
MOVIES ‘The Irishman’

Martin Scorsese’s latest – and presumably last – mob drama is a more rueful, reflective experience than you’d expect.
MOVIES ‘Knives Out’

Foul deeds are afoot in a New England set whodunnit.