Bob Hoskins — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

In 1998's Cousin Bette, Jessica Lange Plays a Bitter Spinster Out For Revenge

One of you kind souls paid me to watch and write about the 1998 adaptation of the Balzac comedy Cousin Bette.

Shards from the Fractured Mirror: Jolson Rides Again, The Legend of Lylah Claire, Once in a Lifetime, The Pretenders, Shrink, Sweet Liberty, With Friends Like These and Zeroville

This latest round-up of pieces on movies about movies from my upcoming book The Fractured Mirror contains two separate James Franco movies you’ve never heard of and I still have two more left to cover. Please stop making shitty movies about movies, James Franco! Oh wait, I forgot. You’re not making any movies inside Director Jail.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit Will Always Be a Marvel and a Miracle

In this piece that will appear in my forthcoming book The Fractured Mirror, I pay reverent tribute to 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which was hailed as a technological miracle when it came out. It has only gotten better with time.