TV Review: ‘Jim Gaffigan: The Pale Tourist’

Review by James Lindorf For comedy to be truly successful, there has to be an understanding of the subject matter. Jokes that work in Georgia may not work in Connecticut, and stories in Tokyo could easily fall flat in Sydney. To get around this problem, comedian Jim...

Movie Review: ‘Radioactive’

Greetings again from the darkness. There can never be enough movies made or books written about remarkable people with incredible accomplishments. Marie Curie was certainly a remarkable woman and her accomplishments were such scientific break-throughs that we are...
Movie Review: ‘7500’

Movie Review: ‘7500’

Greetings again from the darkness. The first airplane hijacking movie I remember seeing was AIRPORT (1970, with Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin). Since then, it’s been a recurring, relatively common cinematic topic blending our natural fears (flying and terrorism) with...

Movie Review: ‘Seberg’

Greetings again from the darkness. “Who is Jean Seberg?” A reporter asks the question to her, just before the movie star’s agent escorts him away as she prepares for publicity shots on PAINT YOUR WAGON, the outlandish 1969 musical-comedy in which she co-starred with...