THAI ME UP
The menu front says, “Thai Me Up”; the subtitle reads, “You’re bound to like it.” Obviously, the response is “Why knot?” Fortunately the bondage theme and the groan-worthy puns don’t extend to the restaurant or the service. The mismatched seats are comfortable, the orange and red walls are free of restraints, and the staff members…
ARAFAT
“I’m suspicious of stories that are supposed to make me feel anything,” says a character in Ararat. And it might take you just a few scenes of this film to conclude that its writer and director, Atom Egoyan, must agree. As glum as it is elaborate, Ararat is a meditation on history, memory and art…
CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND
About an hour before I watched Confessions of a Dangerous Mind — the story of Gong Show creator/host Chuck Barris, and his claim that he killed 33 people as a CIA assassin — I stumbled upon a heart-warming episode of Jerry Springer. It involved a semi-toothless cracker named Lincoln, who admitted, on national TV (as…
MAX
In 1918, Adolf Hitler was a gaunt, embittered, 30-year-old army corporal and war veteran who ate swill served to him in bread lines, and who walked around Munich clutching his precious portfolio of sketches. Meanwhile, in a chicly inhospitable industrial warehouse, Max Rothman — also a war veteran, and a Jew — sold modern art…
