Widower's Tango

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is a powerful and much-maligned organization that practices "voluntary" censor...

The things people say about you after you're dead are forgivable only to an extent. On the negative side, Baudelaire once asked, ap...

There is a TV commercial currently airing here in Asia for the luxury Shangri-la Hotel chain that is like a gripping mini-movie. In the c...

I used to be leery of I love yous. Having heard the endearment used too many times, backed up with little or no feeling, I used to avoid the...

We always knew that Alfred Hitchcock was a pervert. It was simply a difference of degree, not of kind. So many of his movies are about per...

Four years ago on this blog, I collected a number of quotes from the essays of George Orwell in a post I called George Orwell's Ready Re...

In great poetry, one can always look for resemblances, echoed themes. Ideas central to life are central to poetry: where can one find meanin...