An extremely late-arriving defense of Sex and the City 2 director Michael Patrick King appeared this morning on Big Hollywood. The author, John Nolte, skews Glenn Kenny, yours truly and other liberal-type critics for slamming the film’s cultural attitudes and inflammatory politics or, in Kenny’s case, for criticizing Nolte.
It’s fun to kick this stuff around, but you can’t wait this long after the release of a terrible film. SATC2 has been dead for what…at least a couple of weeks?
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