Documenting the need-not-apply end of the global social scale.

Retelling of modern Hollywood’s origin myths plays it safe

The Last Kings of Hollywood is a no-surprises retelling of the rise to fame, wealth and power of filmmakers Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. Paul Fischer’s The Last Kings of Hollywood re-tells the foundational myths of the late 1960s/1970s era of American filmmaking. Despite naming the three famous filmmakers in its title,…

Schindler’s Watch List

Forgotten and derided Nazisploitation movies expose the lost power of trash cinema and put today’s neutered McMovies to shame. Of all the overused movie clichés, the inescapable prison doesn’t get anywhere near enough scorn. I lost interest in the recent Star Wars: Andor series at the sci‑fi prison with the electrified laser floor. Don’t start…