New on Video: ‘A Hole in the Head’
A Hole in the Head … [is] thoroughly enjoyable, even if it feels something like an effortless throwaway from its key contributors.
A Hole in the Head … [is] thoroughly enjoyable, even if it feels something like an effortless throwaway from its key contributors.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, the major international powers and their smaller, less imposing friends aligned themselves along two extremely divisive ideological lines: the Western pro-capitalists and the Eastern Bloc, the latter driven by a bastardized version of communism. The present column shan’t delve into lessons of political or economic history of the mid-twentieth century, save to mention the above detail and tie it into film noir.