Lou Aguilar
Everything you need to know about the current state of American culture can be learned in this weekend’s movie box-office report. Disney’s feminist live-action Snow White remake plunged a catastrophic 66 percent in its second round to an abysmal $14…
Compact magazine last week published one of the most disturbing yet culturally important articles of the decade. In The Vanishing White Male Writer, author Jacob Savage describes the cold war against male Caucasian fiction authors waged by the left-dominated publishing…
Last Friday I saw something on television I’d seen many times before, but with a major twist. A giant sleek white rocket ship blasted off toward space bearing a crew of four. Only instead of something out of the science-fiction…
My mother died last week at the age of 92. For the rest of my life, every Ash Wednesday will evoke her memory. Not that I’ll need a Holy Day of Obligation to always remember her. She was not only…
In 2006, the brilliant geopolitical scholar Mark Steyn wrote a depressively prescient book about the imminent fate of the Western world, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. Steyn posited that Europe would collapse from three…
In the mediocre yet fun James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, series archvillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld auctions a laser weapon to the major superpowers by threatening them with devastation. He’s actually disappointed when Bond (Sean Connery) shows up at his…
Something happened to me last week in my other life as a fiction writer that made me flashback to my Hollywood days. I was a Story Analyst there in the 90s. That’s a fancy title for a Reader for a…
The best movie made about Hollywood is The Bad and the Beautiful. Vincente Minnelli’s 1952 classic depicts the passion of brilliant yet amoral producer Jonathan Shields (the great Kirk Douglas) to elevate his films over the refrain by his studio…
Last week I watched a scene in a new movie I’d waited 20 years to see, which may signal the collapse of Hollywoke. The picture was Mel Gibson’s Flight Risk. The scene was a fight on a plane between Michelle…
