Widower's Tango

On December 3, 1994 the comic Adam Sandler introduced his “Chanukah Song” on Saturday Night Live. It was so popular that, in perennial app...

F. Scott Fitzgerald On the occasion of the 92nd Academy Awards, I quoted at length the decidedly dim view that Edmund Wilson took of the...

“And yet this book makes one slightly sick.” For me, watching the Academy Awards is not much different from watching the Grammys – a pr...

Looking up articles by John Simon who, now 93, remains the sole surviving film critic of the Golden Age, I came across a querulous piece ...

For everything, it seems, there is a category, a classification, or a genre to which it must be assigned before any discussion of it can g...

The problem I have with scary movies is that, with notable exceptions, they no longer scare me. I was plenty scared by them when I was a ...