Anticommunism at the movies. You’re trying awful hard with all this patriotic eyewash.
—Skip McCoy, Pickup on South Street If you’re feeling polemical, you might argue that all Hollywood cinema is anticommunist: as the central commodity of t…

Why were the nineties so preoccupied with fatherhood? Some decades are summed up easily, the accretion of cliché and cultural narrative having reached such a point that we hardly need say anything at all. The sixties: hippies, drugs, revolution, …