Behind the Candelabra seeks the flesh behind the fabric and gold leaf

 

Has any superstar disappeared from the public consciousness as fully as Liberace?

The man once known as the world’s greatest entertainer, Elvis before there was an Elvis, is now, twenty-five years after his death, all but unknown to the current generation.

The Iceman is a cool but hollow affair, despite Shannon’s chilling performance

 

What’s with our obsession with people, usually men, who do very bad things and the current trend for trying to make us sympathize with them, serial killers especially?

Say what you want about the moral ambiguity of the age in which we live, but for or every Zodiac that makes a game of tracking down the monster, there’s a Badlands that romanticizes their exploits or a Seven Psychopaths making them figures of fun.…

The Hangover Part 3: Merry ride or bad trip?

I’d like to kick this review off with a question: can anyone name a movie trilogy in which the third installment was not the weakest?

The Matrix Revolutions. The Dark Knight Rises. The Godfather Part 3. Even Return of the Jedi has garnered the most criticism of the original Star Wars trilogy (the Ewoks can probably be considered the start of George Lucas’ descent into Jar Jar Binks inanity).…