X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
May24

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)     It’s better than X-Men:  Days of Future Past.  There.  I’ve said it.  Bring on the baseball bats and the thumbscrews.  Sure, a lot of that is down to my new acting hero Oscar Isaac (about whom, more later) as Apocalypse; but it’s not just that.  No matter what you read and no matter what those dim-witted critics who find it hard to follow a story are saying, this is damned near the best of the series. And...

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Norman Bates, Freddy Krueger, Enda Kenny & Me
May21

Norman Bates, Freddy Krueger, Enda Kenny & Me

  Norman Bates, Freddy Krueger, Enda Kenny & Me   This piece appears in Chicago’s Irish American News for June, 2016   “Would we be better off without slasher films? I don’t think it really makes the Top Ten of things we would be better off without.  I think that we would be better off without politicians who lie.  I think that we would be better off without avarice or greed.” So said the director of Graduation Day, Rabbi Herb...

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