This is I, / Hamlet the Dane. — Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1  Unless you count the giant, icy island of Greenland — which is fifty times its size with a hundredth of its population — Denmark is a tiny…

“It’s the smell, Jeff. I keep getting complaints.”  – Landlord of convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer In the first episode of the clunkily titled Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, the new 10-part Netflix series created by Ryan Murphy…

“Sweden Is Becoming Unbearable,” read the headline on Sept. 18. Well, yes, Sweden is becoming unbearable: thanks to the mass influx of Muslims into the country over the last few decades, its rape statistics are the highest in Europe, youth…

Many years ago, I lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for over a decade, and during that period I was an exceedingly ardent pedestrian. But even though actor-director Woody Allen lived nearby and was also famously what the…

The news came on Tuesday. French-Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard, who with François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, and Éric Rohmer was a key figure of the New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) movement and a tremendous influence on such later directors…

Boy, did I want to like My Son Hunter. I admire the hell out of Laurence Fox, the British star of the TV series Lewis who plays Hunter Biden. Drummed two years ago out of decent showbiz society after refusing…

As Louis C.K. put it, with only slight exaggeration, during a recent appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Hollywood movies these days are all about either superheroes or slaves. Instead of knocking themselves out trying to find first-rate original scripts that…

“And bid the world Goodmorrow, and go to glory home!” – Emily Dickinson I am writing about this because it has been the only thing on my mind during the last few days. On Jan. 13, Terry Teachout, the theater…

Some people are foolish enough to take their political cues from show-business celebrities like Bette Midler, Rob Reiner, and Cher. Not me. I listen to athletes. So when I heard that 28-year-old British diver Tom Daley had made a documentary…