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America at 250 Is a Clash of ‘Taxi Driver’ vs ‘All the President’s Men’

July 3, 2026July 9, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments 1970s cinema, 1976 films, Alan J. Pakula, algorithms, alienation, All the President's Men, America at 250, American cinema, American politics, antihero, Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, cultural criticism, democracy, Dustin Hoffman, Fight Club, film criticism, Hollywood, institutions, Journalism, local journalism, loneliness, loneliness epidemic, manosphere, Martin Scorsese, media consolidation, media trust, movies, news media, newspapers, Paul Schrader, political films, Richard Nixon, Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, social media, Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle, Washington Post, Watergate

Travis Bickle is wiping the floor with Woodward and Bernstein

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Hanging on the Telephone

February 5, 2021February 9, 2021 Matt Hanson 0 Comments Adam Sandler, Black Christmas, Dr. Strangelove, Glengarry Glen Ross, Jack Lemmon, Joe Pesci, Jon Favreau, Lakeith Stanfield, Paul Thomas Anderson, Peter Sellers, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Punch-Drunk Love, Robert DeNiro, Sorry To Bother You, Swingers, Taxi Driver

The most memorable bad phone calls in movie history

Marty Vs. Marvel

November 14, 2019June 1, 2023 Ben Schwartz 6 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

No Joke

October 3, 2019October 8, 2019 Stephen Garrett 1 Comment Arthur Fleck, Batman, Christopher Nolan, DC Black, Frances Conroy, Gotham City, Heath Ledger, Joaquin Phoenix, Joker, Newark, Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver, The Dark Knight, Todd Phillips, Travis Bickle, Zack Snyder

Batman Meets Taxi Driver in Todd Phillips’ ‘Joker’

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Is Maggie O’Farrell’s New Novel ‘Land’ Just Grief Porn?

July 19, 2026July 24, 2026 Katie Smith 0

The ‘Hamnet’ author’s charts Ireland’s history

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‘The Invite’ Prompt Was — Bergman, But Make It Funny!

July 11, 2026July 14, 2026 Laura Pruden 3

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Traumatized Young Woman?

July 10, 2026July 14, 2026 Neal Pollack 1

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‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ With the Revolutionary Guard

July 8, 2026July 10, 2026 William Schwartz 0

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