Neal Pollack, Author at BOOKS, FILM AND MORE.

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Heidi 2: The Quickening

January 23, 2019January 23, 2019 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Agatha Christie, Aldous Huxley, Bobbsey Twins, Carl Sandburg, copyright, D.H. Lawrence, Djuna Barnes, Don Quixote, Edith Wharton, Heidi, Jean Toomer, public domain, Tarzan, The Three Musketeers, William Dean Howells

Hundreds Of Literary and Cinematic Works Just Entered The Public Domain. Which One Should We Butcher First?

CREATORS NON-FICTION

How Does Michael Lewis Do That?

January 21, 2019January 21, 2019 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Lawrence Wright, Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk

In ‘The Fifth Risk,’ He’s Smarter Than You, Again

DOCUMENTARY FILM Netflix

Trial By Fyre

January 18, 2019 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Billy McFarland, Fyre Festival, Ja Rule, The Greatest Party That Never Happened

Netflix’s Fyre Festival Documentary Marks the End of Influencer Culture

CREATORS FICTION TELEVISION Writers

The Wackadoodle Literary Satire Of ‘You’

January 11, 2019January 12, 2019 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Caroline Kepnes, David Mitchell, Friends From College, Jonathan Franzen, Lifetime, Paula Fox, Search Party, The Affari, You, Zadie Smith

Tales Of A Bookish Psychopath

CREATORS NON-FICTION Writers

Making the Case Against Cannabis

January 9, 2019January 8, 2019 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Alex Berenson, cannabis, marijuana, tell your children

The BFG Interview With Alex Berenson, Author Of ‘Tell Your Children’

FILM

Like Watching Paint Dry

January 7, 2019January 7, 2019 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Julian Schnabel, Oscar Issac, Paul Gauguin, Van Gogh, Willem Dafoe

The Van Gogh Movie That Will Make You Hate Art

FICTION FILM TELEVISION

Little Women At Howard’s End

January 3, 2019January 3, 2019 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Agent Carter, Anthony Hopkins, Bob Odenkirk, Christian Bale, Claire Danes, E.M. Forster, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Gabriel Byrne, Greta Gerwig, Hayley Atwell, Helena Bonham Carter, Howard's End, Kenneth Lonergan, Kirsten Dunst, Laura Dern, Little Women, Meryl Streep, Saorise Ronan, Susan Sarandon, Timothée Chalamet, Winona Ryder

The Classics, Endlessly Adapted

FICTION

‘The Mars Room’ Has a Genius Problem

January 2, 2019January 2, 2019 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room

A Gritty Crime Story Told By a Writer Who Wants to be Don DeLillo

FILM

Mirai: the Endless Shriek of a Coddled Child

December 26, 2018December 21, 2018 Neal Pollack 0 Comments anime, Coco, Inside Out, Mirai

In This Beautiful Anime, a Toddler is Annoying

COMICS FILM

‘Aquaman’, Lord Of The Crab People

December 16, 2018December 18, 2018 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Amber Heard, Aquaman, Atlantis, DC, Jason Momoa, Nicole Kidman, Patrick Wilson, Willem Dafoe

Also, Dinosaurs and Willem Dafoe in a Wetsuit

FICTION

Unclean, Unclean!

December 12, 2018December 12, 2018 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Jen Beagin, Pretend I'm Dead

‘Pretend I’m Dead,’ by Jen Beagin

FICTION

The Plot Against Having Sex With Old Philip Roth

December 10, 2018December 10, 2018 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Asymmetry, Lisa Halliday, Philip Roth

‘Asymmetry,’ By Lisa Halliday

FILM

‘The Front Runner’ Is a Real Bummer

December 6, 2018December 6, 2018 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Alfred Molina, Armando Iannucci, Bill Burr, Hugh Jackman, J.K. Simmons, Jason Reitman, Kevin Pollack, Nikita Kruschchev, Robert Altman, Steve Buscemi, The Death Of Stalin, The Front Runner, Vera Farmiga

It Needed That Iannucci Touch

FILM

‘Green Book’: The Movie That Ended Racism

November 30, 2018December 4, 2018 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Green Book, Linda Cardellini, Mahershala Ali, Peter Farrelly, Viggo Mortensen

Now We Can All Be Friends

FILM

‘Creed 2’: Too Many Creeds

November 21, 2018November 21, 2018 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Creed 2, Dolph Lundgren, Drago, Michael B. Jordan, Rocky, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson

The Übermensch Who Thinks He’s An Underdog

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