Virginia
Box office blues: Movies today are underwritten and have no emotional payoff
These days a film as literate and verbally rich as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is unthinkable. Yet I think audiences crave it.
What do the films Barbie and Oppenheimer have in common? Yes, they were both released in the summer of 2023 and did blockbuster business. The joke at the time was that the two movies were huge cultural events despite being totally different. Barbie e... [4716 chars]