The actor: Sacha Baron Cohen The character: Borat Sagdiyev The film: Borat The quote: “Very nice, how much?” At the moment, I didn’t expect this to become a formative memory. Looking back across half of my life, this is absolutely a formative memory. I saw the teaser trailer for Borat on MySpace. Most of it… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #91
Another year of Oscars, another year of “I have a day job and I have to do this after everyone else’s takes have already filled the marketplace of takes.” 1) Several months ago, when I thought AMPAS would keep the 93rd Academy Awards to 2020 releases, I was really excited about what we might get… Read More 93rd Academy Awards: Hastily Scribbled Thoughts
Dir. Aaron Sorkin. Starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong, Mark Rylance Spoilers for this recent release, but as ever for movies based off historical events, Wikipedia exists, so… I read seven or eight reviews of this movie before I had a chance to see it, but very few of them get further into David Dellinger… Read More The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
Seeing Things Secondhand 