Taking a filthy rich chauvinistic North African dictator, stripping away his identity in a pair of botched assassination attempts, and finding him roaming the streets of New York City as a “normal guy” might sound like the ingredients for an intriguing action thriller, but it’s actually the plot of The Dictator, a new comedy starring Sacha Baron Cohen that features scenes of sheer comic genius alo...[Read More]
As I wipe away tears of exhausted joy, the sheer overwhelming beauty of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo is just beginning to take shape as a solid, golden object of art that should come to be a classic film for children and adults in the same pantheon as The Wizard of Oz, The Red Balloon, and E.T. Scorsese has been leading up to the kind of picture that would serve as a personal summation of all of the rev...[Read More]