It has been 12 years since playwright-turned-filmmaker David Mamet wrote and directed a feature film. During those years he has remained extremely active in the theatre, writing five plays (at least one of which he also directed) while also making himself into a political lightning rod with his increasingly conservative rhetoric, beginning with an essay in 2011 in which he renounced his previous life as a 'œbrain-dead liberal,' and culminating with repeated proclamations that Donald Trump is the best President since Abraham Lincoln. His extreme rightward lurch has rankled many, but, of course, that is the point, as ... Read More