Actually, you answered your own question. The only people who would want to experience Westworld are primarily “straight white dudes” who enjoy discharging firearms, and whose idealized fantasy of the Old West comes from Hollywood westerns. Never mind that the real “Old West” wasn’t remotely epic, heroic, exciting, or…

It’s hard to imagine in what alternate universe the appearance of Donald Trump would add an atom of prurient appeal to a softcore girlie video. It certainly wouldn’t work in this universe, except for fetishists attracted to flabby old men resembling Russian babushkas in tailored suits.

Seriously. That was the most botched introduction of a major character ever. She appears for about a nanosecond at the end of an incredibly long, dreary, boring, tediously pointless movie—can we please put some FUN back into these things?—in which a twitching, mumbling Jesse Eisenberg plays not only the worst Lex…

Oh, I agree completely. Warhol was a hack, on an industrial, never-before-seen scale, but I don't think he had any pretensions about it at all. If anything, he was glad of it. I think Warhol's most inspired creation was Warhol himself, and that most of the time, he was having one over on everyone else. At the height…

Yep. He would, I expect.

I was completely "WTF?" Given the avalanche of spy films in which the villain turned out to be a "rogue agent" with an old score to settle (yawn), I was dumbstruck that *that* was the big "reveal." With the new Bond intended to be darker, grittier, and more authentic—(of all the Bonds, Daniel Craig is the least…