"When I do not want to say things in real life I often say them here." — Mimi Smartypants
The Counterfeiters (2008) When Germans of the current generation face their past, they do it with utter honesty. For all the Hobbesian bleakness inherent in this movie’s subject — “continual fear, and danger of violent death, and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” — there’s a weak ray of triumph at […]
Is it just me, or does anyone else think this Hero Pilot stuff is spinning out of control? I dunno, it hits me as wrong. Mawkish, lowest common denominator, on-display-for-your-beer-guzzling-delectation wrong. I’m surprised Sullenberger’s going along with all this. It’s like Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche: real pilots don’t strut around like peacocks when they […]