“I.O.U.S.A”: America over its credit limit

I’ve always been good at math. I scored 740 out of 800 on my SATs in math, earned straight A’s in my classes, was better at math even than I was at English, but I loved English more, which is why I’m now writing about it instead of doing someone’s taxes. Mathematics directs you to a basic principle: what you have minus what you spend equals what you have left. If what you spend always exceeds what you have, you can look forward to repeated visits from the repo man … Read the rest of my review at Culturazzi.org

Robert Altman’s “Nashville” (1975)

Robert Altman’s 1975 ensemble drama Nashville begins with the presidential campaign of fictional Hal Philip Walker, who is never seen but frequently heard through the loudspeakers of a campaign truck that blares his radical ideas: get the lawyers out of Congress! Change the national anthem! He represents the Replacement Party, and he means to replace … Read the rest of my review at Culturazzi.org

Murder in the Midwest: “Paradise Lost” (1996) and “Paradise Lost 2″ (1999)

According to the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky are in production on Paradise Lost 3. I think they should keep making the Paradise Lost movies until the story is over, or until it is clear that the story never will be over. Sixteen years after the events that inspired them, that point is yet to come … Read the rest of my review at Culturazzi.org

Ingmar Bergman’s “Scenes from a Marriage” (1973)

I’ve seen a lot of films about marriage, but Scenes from a Marriage may be the best. Written and directed by the late Swedish master Ingmar Bergman, the 1973 drama is filmed on sets less sophisticated than most sitcoms, with camerawork equally simple, but in its writing and acting it is more passionate, more scorching, and more intimate than any film of its kind I can think of … Read the rest of my review at Culturazzi.org