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The Talkies
by | Jan 26, 2024

The American Spectator’s founder and editor-in-chief, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., suggested that I review for these pages Michael Mann’s latest…

by | Jan 21, 2024

MR. SPOCK: Beauty is transitory, Doctor. However, she was evidently highly intelligent. CAPTAIN KIRK: Kirk to Enterprise, five to beam…

by | Jan 2, 2024

There’s an old Russian proverb ostensibly about a dancing bear: “The marvel is not that the bear dances well, but…

by | Dec 30, 2023

As the Christmas and Hanukkah season rolls toward this evening’s midnight crescendo, Hollywood’s year-end prestige movies beckon. Here are my…

by | Dec 24, 2023

For decades during the postwar era, Leonard Bernstein occupied a unique place at the red-hot center of both America’s high…

by | Dec 23, 2023

I didn’t watch too many Hallmark Channel or Great American Family Christmas movies this season for two reasons. One, I’m…

by | Dec 22, 2023

Asked in an interview recently to name my favorite Christmas movie, I went through the usual routine of naming several…

by | Dec 18, 2023

Last month, reporting here on the first part of the sixth and last season of The Crown, I was, if…

by | Dec 16, 2023

Twenty years after the biblical drama The Passion of the Christ smashed records by grossing more than $611 million worldwide…

by | Dec 11, 2023

Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever By Matt Singer (G.P. Putman’s Sons, 352 pages, $30) In the…

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