“Pauline Kael drifts away from a half-hearted analysis of 'Kane' to the most lively gossip imaginable about the alleged birth-pangs and labor-pains of the script. Bit by bit, 'Raising Kane' becomes an excuse to lower the boom on Orson Welles so as to resurrect the reputation of the late Herman J. Mankiewicz.”

“Like the Big O says in the The Late Great Planet Earth, '70 per cent of biblical prophecy has already come true. The remaining 30 per cent will come true in our lifetime.' ”

On the eightieth anniversary of Welles’s “War of the Worlds” we revisit Mark Jacobson’s 1979 review of the great auteur’s role in another End-Times production

How a review of an old Orson Welles movie changed my life