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Kyle Smith is the movie critic for the New York Post, a novelist, and essayist. A writer in Entertainment Weekly described Smith’s film-reviewing style as “an exercise in hilarious hostility.” He has been dubbed “America’s most cantankerous film critic” by The Atlantic magazine.
In this episode of In Conversation, Kyle and Rob discuss being conservatives in a liberal business, the new Star Wars sequel, the problem with Stephen Colbert, and more.
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Do I need to be concerned with any spoilers about the Star Wars sequel? Need to know if I should wait to listen to it.
Good question! There are no spoilers in this podcast.
The Hateful Eights awful review couldn’t happen to a nicer director.
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De gustibus,etc. I have never seen a Star Wars film since the first one so many years ago. In fact I only saw the first half of that one and then walked out, propelled by boredom and annoyance. Cowboys and Indians in “space?” Let others find metaphorical meaning, extension of the medium through regression or “brilliant evocation of eternal myth.” It never matched the Flash Gordon serial of my childhood and the redoubtable, two-dimensionable mastery of Buster Crabbe!!
Very entertaining! Very iconoclastic tastes in best movies.
I think Warner Brothers cartoons are lost on younger kids, and are best appreciated in high school and college, for the wordplay, cultural allusions, satire, anarchy, visual style, and appreciation for the influence of the writer and director. As an Austin resident in my youth (and before the ubiquity of videos and DVDs), I watched a lot of cheap movies screened on the UT campus as part of the Texas Union student programs, and cartoons were a big part of the rotation. We learned to appreciate Tex Avery, Robert Clampett and Chuck Jones and all their great characters. My parents grew up seeing them in theaters, and were amused that we would go to the movies to see nothing but cartoons.