Disney has spent the last year developing and refining its destructive habit of producing films infected by woke themes — and it’s become surprisingly good at it. The result, of course, has been disastrous for the mega-entertainment company; almost every…
The people running Disney appear crazier than that guy who stripped naked on “It’s a Small World” Sunday and started dancing with the animatronics and climbing on the iconic ride’s structure. “Generally, our revenues and profitability are adversely impacted when…
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,…
Marvel’s newest film, The Marvels, isn’t expected to do well at the box office. The movie, which cost a reported $200 million to produce, is supposed to make a measly $50–60 million — a low number by studio standards. Early…
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…
In this week’s episode of The Spectator P.M. Podcast, hosts Aubrey Gulick and Luther Abel are back from their brief hiatus to discuss the future of conservative entertainment in light of Daily Wire’s newest kids’ platform: Bentkey. Does Daily Wire have…
In the not-so-distant past, conservative entertainment options were usually inflicted by the very serious plague of cringe. Think of the overt, shove-down-your-throat messaging that characterized somewhat successful films like God is Not Dead, making them difficult to watch for those…
A marvelous feature of the Culture War is that it is the thinkers not government leaders who are waging and winning it. At least not the national leaders — yet. A few regional ones like Ron DeSantis of Florida and…
It takes a long time to turn around a large ship — sometimes fatally long — as were five minutes aboard the RMS Titanic on the night of April 10, 1912. Her lookout Frederick Fleet spotted the deadly iceberg at…
