“This is the kind of movie that’s so bad, you gotta tell someone about it.” Can’t take credit for that, as it was my viewing companion, but she’s dead-on. The Night Before is a putative Christmas comedy that’s putrid in execution and puts the rank in rank amateur. Three stoner dramatis personae have a tradition,Continue reading “The Night Before”
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Frankenstein: How a Monster Became an Icon
In his essay collection The Rub of Time, novelist Martin Amis assembled his ultimate Tennis Monster inspired by Victor Frankenstein – the head of Thomas Muster, the torso of Boris Becker, the legs of Michael Chang, etc. With the metaphor being extended to something as genteel as tennis, does the mystique of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein;Continue reading “Frankenstein: How a Monster Became an Icon”
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