I thought it was real. I know, I know, that’s ridiculous, but otherwise why make a movie about a female chess prodigy with such a harrowed background? I’ve got no time for chess. We all started with checkers, had no idea what the back of the board was all about until the backgammon craze of […]

What the hell was she doing on SNL? She’s the biggest act in the world. Bigger than Drake, bigger than Taylor Swift, bigger than ANYBODY! Maybe because she goes away, she’s not working it all the time, maybe because she has hits, in a genre almost everyone has forgotten about, straight ahead pop, sans the […]

It’s not exactly how I remember it. Then again, I lived through it, and most of America did not. So they’ve got no idea what the sixties were really like, everything was up for grabs, even the country itself. And the funny thing is just like fifty years ago, the oldsters are completely out of […]

London Spy Netflix This is a fantastic series. We’ve been on a losing streak. “Stranger,” that Korean show I was telling you about? It was interesting, but just didn’t deliver, and it took sixteen episodes to get to the end of the first season! The cinematography was great, Seoul was intriguing, but it took so […]