The Sky Is Falling

Left-Central Elite Doesn't Get Movies. I wanted to like this one, I really did. The title and description sounded awesome. Unfortunately, the book itself was a gold mine - the single worst description of a book I've ever used. Meaning you have to sift through a LOT of detritus to find even a single good flake, and an actual nugget worth of goodness is even more rare. Biskind looks at movies as old as WWII and as recent as Black Panther, all in service of a central premise that is so fatally flawed as to be laughable. This subject could have been handled very differently and a compelling case could have been made, but Biskind failed to really even make an attempt to make it. That said, his publisher has their stated goal of “sparking conversations”, and in that regard, this book may be at least somewhat successful... though maybe in the “any press is better than no press” kind of way.