Film Review
Jackie
Camelot is born in media-savvy biopic about JFK’s grieving widow
Jackie is an intellectual, visually stylized exercise in nostalgia and myth-making—crystalizing the moment when politics became more about optics.
Idiot Box
Stocking Suffer
Christmas around the dial
As television is fond of reminding us, “Christmas comes but once a year; now it’s here, now it’s here!”
Week in Sloth
Holiday-time means teevee-time and this week you can get your fill with “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” It’s a Wonderful Life, the Kennedy Center Honors show and “My Crazy Sex.”