Lou Aguilar
I’ve been writing for years about the steep decline of cinema — in fact all art and media — this century. My very first article for this fine publication (fortunately for my integrity, a true statement rather than a transparent…
Last Good Friday, I visited the chapel of my church, conveniently located on the Florida island where I live. It’s one of only six in the Miami area that houses the living Host for twenty-four hours a day, seven days…
This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it, Like to a tenement or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose…
Military history is replete with famous battles that turned the tide in war. When a superior force overextended itself in the wrong place at the wrong time. These include the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC, where 10,000 Athenians and…
For as long as I’ve been alive, the Left has dominated the media. Though its earlier minions weren’t psychotic or Orwellian about it as they are now. They didn’t cancel or ban non-compliant journalism, fiction, and even social media messaging…
CAPTAIN KIRK: You have him on complete Life Support. Was he dead? DR. MCCOY: He was worse than dead. CAPTAIN KIRK: What do you mean? DR. MCCOY: Jim … CAPTAIN KIRK: Come on, Bones, what’s the mystery? DR. MCCOY: His…
Last week, I watched Laura for maybe the twentieth time, during Turner Classic Movies’ glorious annual 31 Days of Oscar marathon. The 1944 film-noir gem is a master class in the lost trade of screenwriting and film construction. People forced…
The traditional definition of “writer’s block” is a “condition in which an author loses the ability to produce.” It once exclusively applied to the writer’s own creative slowdown. For modern conservative scribes, however, it extends to the actual obstacles that…
The dirty secret of Hollywood’s subservience to wokeness is that even the minorities it depicts are sick of it. Any group would rather be entertained like they once were — regardless of the racial representation on screen — than preached…
