Few people on this planet know what it is to be truly despised. Can you blame them? I earn a living fronting an organization that kills 1200 people a day. Twelve hundred people. We’re talking two jumbo jet plane loads of men, women, and children. I mean, there’s Attila, Genghis..and me, Nick Naylor. The face…

Full disclosure: I love Greta Gerwig. Lady Bird makes me ugly-cryface with gratitude every time I watch it. Her version of Little Women was revelatory and infuriatingly perfect (a writer yet to sell a screenplay notes). She was and is the perfect choice for the project, with longtime partner Noah Baumbach, most recently the architect…

“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” – Judgement Day. For more than seventy years, Hollywood has been fascinating and frightening people with various representations of artificial intelligence (AI). Sometimes the AI is good or well-intentioned, but more often the AI is sinister and trying to eradicate a few humans, if not all of humanity.…

“No Hard Feelings” … Oh, the humanity. After reading the synopsis of No Hard Feelings I immediately wondered why an established and renowned actor like Jennifer Lawrence would choose to star in a film with all the hallmarks of a soiled diaper. It’s an understatement to say this kind of film is beneath Lawrence at…