Movies
Oppenheimer
I don’t go to the cinema much. I concluded decades ago that Hollywood would only change if they were starved of funds. That was before they went really woke of course. At the time I just wanted them to put out better content. Since then the movies produced by Hollywood have become significantly worse. The …
The Inner Elvis: The man in the new biopic
This isn’t a movie review. It’s my take on Elvis’s man story as revealed in the new biopic which I watched this week. Although Elvis’ life played out on an epic scale, the story was quite the opposite, a difficult family entanglement that Elvis wasn’t able to free himself from. It sheds light on how, …
Midlife Crisis of An Alpha male
In 1975 I was working at a TV station when The Eiger Sanction was released. We aired a series of advertisements for this Clint Eastwood (as actor and director) movie that attracted a great deal of attention from the women in the office. I still remember one co-worker gushing like a teenager: “Oh, he’s so …
Movie Review – Top Gun: Maverick
The Critical Drinker is an anti-woke Youtuber from Scotland and comes highly recommended.