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The Talkies
by | Mar 18, 2024

Six years have passed since Hannah Gadsby, the plus-sized lesbian stand-up from Tasmania, became world famous. Her debut Netflix special, Nanette, had the critics salivating. The premise was brilliant — not comically brilliant, mind you, but politically brilliant. After serving…

by | Mar 15, 2024

Updated 12:35 P.M., March 16, 2024. I wrote earlier this week about the new feminist feature film, Cabrini, a shockingly secularized story of a sainted nun converted into a warrior woman battling bigotry. I focused on the film’s remarkable sin…

by | Mar 12, 2024

If you’d like to see a movie about a saint utterly gutted of religious meaning this Lenten season, piqued by a perverse curiosity of what such a spectacle might look like, then go see Cabrini. It’s quite the marvel: a…

by | Mar 3, 2024

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…

by | Feb 25, 2024

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…

by | Feb 18, 2024

Oh, to be a conservative now that election season is nigh. For the record, I am a conservative and will likely spend the months leading up to Election Day comparing and contrasting the efficacy of various over-the-counter antacids. Despite the…

by | Feb 18, 2024

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…

by | Feb 17, 2024

Despite recent claims that the Academy Awards excluded women from coveted categories — claims made by none other than #Hillary Barbie — the nominations suggest an unprecedented appreciation of films made by or for women.  Sure, Barbie’s Greta Gerwig is…

by | Feb 11, 2024

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…

by | Feb 4, 2024

I’ve been stating for a decade that men will save America from the forces of leftist darkness, and this election year should be the turning point. Because time is running out, as more young women turn to the dark side….

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