Lou Aguilar
In the spring of 1979, the legendary John Wayne lay dying of lung cancer at UCLA Medical Center. He had accepted the ravages of the disease with the same true grit he showed throughout his 72-year life and 50-year Hollywood…
’Tis the week before Christmas and on TCM, Yuletide movies are playing AM to PM. Hallmark Channel and Lifetime are doing the same, but with made-for-TV films, most of them lame. Full of leftwing inclusion so blatantly woke, They seek…
The most noxious thing about wokeness is not its inability to create great art, but its need to replace it with inferior work. Ayn Rand put it best. “Don’t set out to raze all shrines — you’ll frighten men. Enshrine…
The total meltdown of Disney’s latest leftist child-brainwashing project, Strange World, amused me. By now, everyone knows that the prestigious animated feature failed to launch, opening with an abysmal $18.6 million over the entire five-day Thanksgiving holiday. And that uncoincidentally…
The Maze: A John Corey Novel By Nelson DeMille (Scribner, 432 pages, $30) If you read Nelson DeMille’s newest John Corey thriller, The Maze, right after Andrew Klavan’s A Strange Habit of Mind as I just did, you might think…
With the disappointing election now behind us, I can forsake politics for the rest of the year and jump back into the even more disappointing arts culture beat. Not deeply enough to actually watch the dreck being shoveled on modern…
Anyone who doubts detective fiction can be high literature will be persuaded otherwise by just the prologue of Andrew Klavan’s second Cameron Winter mystery, A Strange Habit of Mind. A terrified man, Adam, in his apartment sends a short text,…
The only new movie that I had planned to see this month was Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (not really). But that was before a Black Lives Matter TikTok “influencer” scared me off. Some loon named Lavynder Lee suggested in a…
I have a Halloween admission to make. I believe in witches. They don’t fly on broomsticks anymore. Now they have a more effective means to spread their evil and curse the land — political power. What of it they cannot…
