Exciting New Year's Movies (2/2): 4. #TheBrutalist, which I was excited to watch on Christmas Day, had a great first half – but, alas, a not-so-great second half, wherein the thread that would get this film out of the maze it stumbles into gets lost in indulgence and, it seems

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Jim DiEugenio, the screenwriter for #JFKRevisited, wrote a Substack essay in reply to an attack on my film #JFK by Bari Weiss' "Free Press" – carelessly written and apparently not fact-checked by its author, Eli Lake. Anyone who can use #GeraldPosner (Case Closed, 1993) as a

1. Despite the media controversy over #EmiliaPerez, it’s a great film, so original in its conception. I watched it again recently when, as we all do, I began to doubt my choices, and I was again amazed by #JacquesAudiard’s originality in staging a fascinating, always-evolving

I’m reposting #JeffreySachs's speech to the European Union – a clear and fair step-by-step account of what we did in the hopes of destroying #Russia. Trump, I believe, knows some of this, but the EU is deaf. I’ve added my post put out in March of ’22 after the war broke out.

What the hell is going on? Trump has turned into Biden? Mercilessly, relentlessly bombing Yemen and aggressively seeking a new war with Iran. Why doesn’t Trump at least meet with the Iranian leaders, as he did North Korea’s? Why doesn’t he educate himself a little and learn about

Val was brilliant, both as #JimMorrison in #TheDoors and in #Alexander as King Philip of Macedon. His approach and attitude significantly changed between 1990 and Alexander in 2004. The results satisfied me on both occasions. To call #ValKilmer turbulent, contradictory, and

Communicating openly through our screens can be really enlightening, but those people who prefer insulting or just hating another for political or whatever reasons ruin the experience. In my case, I keep hearing from the haters the word “old” thrown my way, i.e. – “You’re just

Below is the first 30 minutes of my interview Tuesday with The Katie Halper Show on the JFK case. With me is Jim DiEugenio, researcher and associate.   youtube.com/live/KoO5I0IYa…   Second half of the 60-minute interview will be up next week.   I’ve also enclosed, for the record, my

A great new book from #EdCurtin linked below. A sumptuous writer and one of the finest thinkers and essayists I’ve read, Curtin sees our confusing world with compassionate clarity and profound wisdom. amazon.com/Lost-Found-Pol…

In 2008, our movie “W.” dramatized a scene of our leaders (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice) deciding to attack Iraq. In a core moment, Cheney discusses #Iran as the ultimate “prize.” It applies today as we embark on another potential disaster, now led by #Netanyahu and