NEWS OF THE WORLD is a somber and sober tale of post-Civil War Texas with few surprises as it wends its way through the mythos of the Old West, unfolding as it does as a metaphor. Or is it an allegory? Perhaps a microcosm of the world’s ills, both then and now? All those elements… Read More »
JASON BOURNE
I’m put in mind of tea leaves. Good quality tea leaves that have rendered such a wonderful cup of tea that you wonder if maybe, just maybe, there’s enough of their essential, unique quality left to take one more infusion to make a cup as good as that first one. And so it is with… Read More »
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM isn’t so much a thriller as a race, a breakneck one, with no quarter given for anyone wanting to catch his or her breath, much less anyone keeping track of the internal logic at work here. Secret meetings in Turin, heartfelt confessions in Paris, sudden changes of allegiance in Madrid, and a… Read More »