For Americans of a certain age — that is to say, Americans who were born and grew up during what…

If you’re like me, you’ve always been somewhat dissatisfied with the annual Academy Awards telecast — and, for that matter,…

The world is divided between those of us who get slapped in time and those who do not. The slap…

Will Smith’s assault on Chris Rock at the Academy Awards ceremony Sunday night would have been the slap heard round…

That thundering noise you heard across the United States on the morning of February 8 was the sound of mass…

In his magnificent novel War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy has his real-life military genius, Mikhail Kutuzov, compare the Napoleon-led French…

It’s a sad pronouncement to make on Academy Awards weekend, but Hollywood is dying, its intersectional rot well past the…

Over the weekend, the World War I drama 1917 got its wide release in theaters, following a limited release since Christmas….

If you have any intention of sitting through the Academy Awards this evening, then here is my “viewing kit” that…