Pretty Baby

Pretty Baby

Well, you think a movie about preteen girls dancing suggestively is controversial – how about a movie about a preteen girl getting paraded around naked? If you’re wondering how this 1978 movie even got made…so am I. I do know it got banned in several countries, and...
Cuties

Cuties

​Well, time to discuss the year’s most controversial movie. I’ll try just focusing on it as a movie first. As someone born and raised in America with parents from India, I could relate very well to this main character, someone born and raised in France with parents...
Project Power

Project Power

​One time in a law school class* I learned about the case Moore v. Regents of the University of California. It was a fascinating battle between a man who had “hairy cell leukemia” and a university** hospital whose doctor repeatedly called him over to the office to...
Marriage Story

Marriage Story

​Back in the DVD heyday I was one of countless people who loved hoarding Criterions. I remember people’s willingness, if they couldn’t get them at places like Best Buy, to pay top dollar prices to get them from Border’s and other retailers that charged the full MSRP...
Kramer vs. Kramer

Kramer vs. Kramer

Sometimes the older film with which I pair the recent one has a tenuous connection to it, if even that. While I tend to pride myself on being imaginative in those cases, here’s one where the later film has often been compared to a specific earlier one. TV Tropes even...