I was relieved last week that the editors of this fine magazine didn’t assign me to review Barbie. Because then…
The golden age of pro basketball continues in the second season of Winning Time. While loyalists in New England may…
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This weekend saw the nationwide debut of possibly the most-anticipated film of the past decade, director Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, a…
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There’s a classic joke by Mort Sahl that never gets old, because progressives keep validating it: “World ends – women…
July 25, 1985, was a red-letter day in the history of the AIDS epidemic. A publicist for the movie star…
I think of myself as a reasonably tough guy, allowing for advancing age and decreasing height. I’ve risked my neck…
There’s a new Transformers movie, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. Although reviewers diverge on the specifics, they generally agree that…