even subservience to, a system that lets cocooned elites merely play games (on an urban, even international scale) while the rest of us must live our grubby, messy lives in a real world of real consequences. The only lesson that there is to learn about Nicholas, the ...
ice turn into a smoothie.” Or the third weekend (ha-ha, just kidding, this movie is so not getting a third weekend) ofFrank Miller’s Sin City: Bottom of the Inkwell.Or the fourth ofThe Expendables 3, which I haven’t seen but which appears to be some kind of sequel toCocoon. ...
The most noticeable thing is that the mother-in-law character wears a large ruff but nobody else does. These big ruffs were fashionable in the Netherlands through the 1640s-50s, but this film is set in 1665, so she’s hanging on to a formerly fashionable style until the very end of t...