Lou Aguilar
A long time ago, when comic books were fun and meant to be grown out of, before they went dark and woke yet infantile, they served a vital purpose. They introduced kids to science-fiction concepts that first stimulated their imagination….
Like most great directors now either dead or slowing down, the late Peter Bogdanovich was a devotee of classic films. His 1973 book, Pieces of Time, features incisive essays on cinema and interviews with screen legends James Stewart, Howard Hawks,…
Christmas Karol By Faith Moore (DW Books, 320 pages, $29) A few nights ago, my apartment doorbell chimed, indicating whoever rang it was likely someone from the building, or else I would have been notified about a visitor. I opened…
Once upon a time, when Disney knew what it was doing, it followed its founder’s formula for success. “I do not make films primarily for children,” Walt Disney said. “I make them for the child in all of us, whether…
The House of Love and Death By Andrew Klavan (Mysterious Press, 312 pages, $27) A sad drawback in what passes for art today is that too many “artists” are less perceptive than the perceivers. The bar for film and literature…
In my sordid past, I was a Hollywood-based screenwriter. This was from the mid-90s to the mid-00s when people bought or rented movies rather than stream videos on their cellphones. Although I wrote good “A” scripts that didn’t sell, I…
Last week was the best one for conservatives around the world since Trump’s 2016 election. This was not despite the second worst mass murder of the century perpetuated by an inhuman force, but indirectly because of it. For just as…
The once popular conservative radio host, Michael Savage, coined the phrase, “Liberalism is a mental disorder,” and wrote a 2005 book with that title. In the two decades since, Savage has been proven not only right but prescient. Ironically, the…
To save America, first save the court system. Because it may be the last institution in the country doing its job — repelling progressive insanity. Four sound, sage judgments last Friday battered the Left all the way up from a…
