In the first moments of The Princess Bride, the narrating grandfather (Peter Falk) describes the story with a litany of genre elements: “fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles,” but that doesn’t begin to cover all the things that draw people to the film. The Princess Bride seems to be aware of its own […]
The Wolf of Wall Street
I will make no apologies: Jordan Belfort is a greedy, shortsighted leech on society, and I hope The Wolf of Wall Street is his swan song. To me, this real-life Wall Street mogul represents everything that can go wrong with the human spirit. To quote him directly, he is nothing but pond scum. And yet […]
