Richard Corliss
Richard Corliss
Richard Nelson Corlisswas an American film critic and magazine editor for Time. As a publisher, he mainly focused on movies, with occasional articles on other subjects...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth6 March 1944
CountryUnited States of America
dream book home
John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land in the Western [United States]; the perfidy of banks in foreclosing on poor people's homes; and the insurgent urge of the book's protagonist, Tom Joad, to speak truth to police power. 'Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy,' Tom promises, 'I'll be there.' In Salinas, Calif., Ferguson, Mo., or Staten Island, N.Y., Tom's truth goes marching on.
expectations taste ashes
[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.
vcr magic promise
Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.
romance hollywood
It rekindles the great Hollywood romances.