There’s no happy ending to be mined from the lives of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. Their final days, like their embittered rivalry, was filled with anguish and dismay, and the only difference between the days of What Ever Happened to…
Feud: Bette and Joan Review: “Abandoned!”
With their boisterous, aggrandized, larger-than-life personas, both on-and-off-screen, it’s hard to find the lines between reality and fiction even within Bette Davis and Joan Crawford’s actual lives. That puts FX’s Feud: Bette and Joan in a curious position, one that…
Feud: Bette and Joan Review: “Hagsploitation”
There’s a thin tightrope between art and trash. Usually, what separates the two is how skillfully they can glean truth and realism in the defying act. Like What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and FX’s Feud: Bette and Joan, that balance…
Album Review: Bob Dylan – “Triplicate”
Even with his walking folk icon status, Bob Dylan remains begrudgingly human. His musing music remains poetic, but his raspy voice holds more candor. As always, he’s hopelessly romantic, but there’s more tender, wrenching sadness to gleam. In Triplicate, his…
Movie Review: Going in Style
Zach Braff’s directorial career follows an interesting trajectory. With Garden State, his once-beloved-and-now-overly-criticized directorial debut, Braff made an outstanding welcoming card, one that captured the bizarre, awkward confusion, senselessness and aimlessness of one’s 20s with poetic grace, a sensitive soul…
Movie Review: The Discovery
What if death wasn’t a definitive, everlasting goodbye, but rather the first step towards the next phase, the great beyond, as proven by science? That’s the theological quandary at the heart of The Discovery, co-writer/director Charlie McDowell’s thoughtful, intensely gloomy follow-up…
‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Review: “And the Winner Is…”
For better or worse, “And the Winner Is…,” the fifth episode of FX’s Feud: Bette and Joan, is their Ryan Murphyest to date. Both written and directed by the producer and provocateur himself, it’s the anthology series as its splashiest,…
