At this point on the chronometer of pop culture, better to just come clean.
For about a minute or so, Australia promises to be some psychedelic version of The New World.
For nearly a decade, I’ve felt a certain allegiance to Robert Altman’s Short Cuts, and I’d never seen a single frame of it.
And so we face another imponderable with the news that director Robert Altman has passed away at age 81.
Why is it so hard to make myself write an appreciation of Christopher Penn?