The understated, minimalist 'Flash Gordon' showed admirable restraint in scenery, costuming, and acting. JUST KIDDING, it's a completely over-the-top circus spectacle of indulgence and various aspects of a film crew working on movies with vastly different tones except they're all working on the same movie. But FLASH means a lot to a lot of people, notably middle-aged white men who were 6 in 1980 and who embrace this movie tighter than they clutch their ticket to Autograph Alley at ComicCon to get a signed pic of the guy who played '3rd Hawkman In Attack Scene' for $25. So we try and plumb the depths, such as they are.
294. 'Crossing Delancey' (1988)
Joan Micklin Silver's 1988 NYC love-letter/romantic comedy Crossing Delancey is
293. Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' (2026)
Go and see 'The Odyssey' in the biggest and best theater you can. You won't regr
292. Robert Redford in 'The Candidate' (1972)
Michael Ritchie and Redford's still-searingly satiric and spot-on takedown of po
291. Listening to The Beatles in Ireland
On a recent trip through Ireland with my daughter, I unexpectedly got back into
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