Author: Ben Schwartz

FILM 

Marty Vs. Marvel

November 14, 2019November 27, 2019 Ben Schwartz 4 Comments 1927's The Jazz Singer, 1983 Cannes Film Festival, Adam McKay, Apocalypse Now, Billy Wilder, Bringing up Baby, Cameron Crowe, David Carr, David O. Selznick, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Capra, Henry Jaglom, Howard Hawks, John Ford, Ken Loach, Kevin Feige, King of Comedy, Martin Scorsese, Marvel, Marvel movies, Midnight Cowboy, Mike Nichols, Orson Welles, Raganok, Raging Bull, Sergio Leone, Taika Waititi, Taxi Driver, The Avengers, The Godfather, The New Yorker's Richard Brody, The Searchers, The Sopranos, Thor: Ragnarok, X-Rated Best Picture Winner

Old-Fogey Hollywood Directors Have Always Hated the Next Wave

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Die Hard is a Halloween Movie

October 31, 2019October 31, 2019 Ben Schwartz 2 Comments

The Call is Coming From Inside Nakatomi Plaza

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Heathers Got Old and So Did You

April 22, 2019April 24, 2019 Ben Schwartz 7 Comments A Modest Proposal, Animal House, Christian Slater, Heathers, John Hughes, Lisanne Falk, Molly Ringwald, Omar Sanchez, Shannen Doherty, The Matrix, Winona Ryder

It Deserves All the Revisionism

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Fat, Drunk, and Stupid

February 20, 2019February 20, 2019 Ben Schwartz 0 Comments Animal House, Bill Murray, Ghostbusters, Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, John Belushi, National Lampoon, Stripes

Animal House, Ghostbusters, and the Covert Conservatism of Boomer Humor

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What ‘Stan and Ollie’ Left Out

January 29, 2019January 29, 2019 Ben Schwartz 0 Comments Helpmates, Oliver Hardy, Stan and Ollie, Stan Laurel

The Subtle Genius of Oliver Hardy

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Before ‘Vice,’ There Was ‘Viva Villa’

January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 Ben Schwartz 0 Comments Adam McKay, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, David O. Selznick, Howard Hawks, Vice, Viva Villa, Wallace Beery

Ben Hecht and the Art of the Takedown Biopic

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Bad Day at Black Rock: When the Gorillas Take Over

December 26, 2018December 21, 2018 Ben Schwartz 0 Comments Bad Day At Black Rock, Ernest Borgnine, John Sturges, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Serge Kovaleski, Spencer Tracy, Trump, William C. Mellor

Moral Lessons for Our Trumpian Moment

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Godzilla, King of the Nightmares

December 14, 2018December 14, 2018 Ben Schwartz 0 Comments Godzilla, Godzilla: King Of The Monsters, Ishirō Honda, King Ghidorah., Mothra, Rodan, Takashi Shimura

Here We Go Again

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Stepin Fetchit Goes To War

December 6, 2018December 6, 2018 Ben Schwartz 0 Comments Birth Of A Nation, Cavalcade, John Ford, Reginald Berkeley, Stepin Fetchit, The World Moves On

In 1934, Director John Ford Reluctantly Confronted Jim Crow

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William Goldman’s Western Cowards

November 29, 2018December 6, 2018 Ben Schwartz 0 Comments A Bridge Too Far, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Catch-22, Katharine Ross, Marathon Man, Paddy Chayevsky, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, The Wild Bunch, William Goldman

‘Butch Cassidy’ and Running From a Fight

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‘The Bad News Bears’ Was My Childhood

October 24, 2018November 1, 2018 Ben Schwartz 0 Comments film history, Jackie Earle Haley, Rocky, Snapshot, Tatum O'Neal, The 1970s, The Bad News Bears, Walter Matthau

Hearkening Back To An Age Where Adults Didn’t Give A Crap

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