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...I post a little tip-of-the-hat mention of William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives (‘46). Because it's a truly great film, because the last half-hour delivers one home-run scene after another, and because it feels good to at least consider that one Millennial or Zoomer who's never seen it...that one Philistine might give it a first-time looksee and become a serious fan.
June 4, 2022 10:53 amby Jeffrey Wells
I'm trusting a suspicion that Louis C.K.'s Fourth of July, a seemingly smart dramedy about a recovering alcoholic musician (Joe List) confronting his dysfunctional, alcohol-embracing parents during a visit to their home, is a good film. I can just smell it. The usual suspect distributors, of course, are too terrified of angering Louis C.K.'s #MeToo detractors to even think about partnering with him, so the comedian-director and cowriter is distributing the film himself.
June 4, 2022 10:17 amby Jeffrey Wells

“If there had been a bunch of American mothers in the corridor [outside the classroom where the killing was taking place], they’d have been in there right away.” — British author Douglas Murray on last night’s Real Time with Bill Maher.

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June 4, 2022 9:48 amby Jeffrey Wells

I've had it up to here with the standard narrative about The Horse Soldiers being one of John Ford's lesser efforts. I know this sounds like heresy, but it may be my favorite post-1945 Ford film. I know that She Wore A Yellow Ribbon and The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance are widely regarded as more substantial and therefore "better", but I don't like watching them as much as The Horse Soldiers, and anyone who doesn't like that can shove it.
June 4, 2022 9:36 amby Jeffrey Wells

Yesterday’s news, of course, but I’ve only just seen this exchange between former TMZ employee Morgan Tremaine and Amber Heard attorney Elaine Bredehoft. Bredehoft tried to belittle Tremaine by suggesting that he was testifying for the Depp side in order to enjoy his 15 minutes of fame, but he turned it right around by saying “pot calling the kettle black.”

June 4, 2022 8:03 amby Jeffrey Wells
In a perfect world, how much should it cost to make a film out of Don DeLillo's "White Noise", a nearly 40-year-old satire of academia (or, in the present context, deranged wokesters) and a general meditation about the inevitability of death?
June 4, 2022 6:40 amby Jeffrey Wells



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