Good. Very good. Probably not great, but worth a watch. It’s been compared with “The Verdict,” the1982 Paul Newman courtroom drama, with good reason. George Clooney has become a Newman kind of actor, a guy comfortable in his skin who takes roles in which he doesn’t seem to be acting …
It’s a really interesting book. The Times’ review speculates that the direction of the book changed mid-stream, and I can see that. The really “hot” years of the cold war are skipped through very quickly. But the sections on Chernobyl are really harrowing. Some of this detail has been published …
Flipping through tomorrow’s New York Times Book Review I see reviews of two books that are, uh, less-than-recent. Richard Rhodes’ “Arsenals of Folly,” which I touched on briefly here close to four weeks ago, and John Dean’s “Broken Government,” which has already got a thick layer of dust on it …
Finished Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism” the other week. It’s a scary take on what the neo-con future of economics looks like.
Much more after the jump. Updated: shockdoctrine.org is another good source.
I’m not even done reading Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race yet, but it looks like Richard Rhodes has hit another home run. I was totally blown away, so to speak, by the chapter “Looking Over The Horizon” last night. It’s a minute-by-minute account of the …
I caught the third of this trio of films last night, and I can’t recommend the series enough.
A while back I laid into David Brooks’ op-ed in the Times on Al Gore’s “Assault on Reason.” I used the word “review” earlier, but with a certain hesitation because after going through it myself I get the sense that every point Brooks addresses in his review can be found …
Just got through Bob Woodward’s latest, State of Denial, part three of what looks to be ultimately a four-part series on Bush and the post-9/11 war program. The book covers the period up to about July of this year. So if you read it soon, and then pick up the …
I just finished John le Carre’s latest, The Mission Song. Let’s say, three stars, shall we? The tale of an African/British man gifted at interpeting. He’s expert at a wide range of central African dialects and enlisted by the British spy service. Even though a British subject, and pretty well …
If you haven’t seen this movie, get up, go to the video store and rent it.
