Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead “Thorough” is the first word I would use to describe this biography. Intense, assured, incisive. America had Hemingway and Fitzgerald, while England had Waugh and Wodehouse. Wodehouse found the whole scene rather silly and made hysterical fun of it. Waugh, on the other hand, had a more…
REVIEW: THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (2008)
If you’ve read the classic short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, be warned. The wit and charm (and the major plot points) are missing from this melodramatic adaptation. The story was inspired by Mark Twain‘s comment that youth is wasted on the young. Fitzgerald took the idea and ran with it, and the film shares…