Tag: Paul Newman

HUSTLED AGAIN: The Color of Money and the originary sequel

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|Ben Tuthill| Maybe nothing has raised the moviegoing populace to space-brain meta-awareness more than the sequel. The sequel presents itself as a new window into an already established cinematic universe, but in reality it exposes the moviemaking infrastructure to which that… Continue reading

A Phenomenology of the East Coast: Sidney Lumet’s The Verdict

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|MH Rowe| As quiet and downbeat as it is—as suspicious of institutional authority as it is—The Verdict (1982) is not quite the post-Watergate courtroom drama it appears to be. It traffics instead in a variety of chastened heroism, the kind that comes from finding out that… Continue reading