This weekend, Doctor Who faces a villain more destructive than the Autons, more frightening than the Weeping Angels, and more devious than Magnus Greel. A Time Lord can survive that lot. The Woke Monster? That strikes as an insurmountable adversary….
When the actress Michele Yeoh accepted the best actress Oscar for her performance in the 2022 film Everything Everywhere All At Once at the age of sixty, she famously quipped, “And ladies, don’t let anybody tell you that you are…
Gladiator II (2024) is the next installment in failed historical fiction, disappointingly delivered by the director who once brought us Black Hawk Down (2001), American Gangster (2007), and Blade Runner (1982), among many others. It follows his previous lackluster historical…
Conservatives believe in the institutions shaped by the accumulated experience of humanity. We know we may be very small, but by standing on the shoulders of those who came before, we can reach very high. Our constitutional law heritage stretches…
I’ve just watched the movie Bonhoeffer, slated for release this November. Filmed in Ireland and Belgium, it enjoys and features a great pedigree. It was written, produced, and directed by Todd Komarnicki — the screenwriter for Sully and producer on Elf….
Two years ago, director Justin Folk and podcaster Matt Walsh collaborated on the documentary What Is a Woman? The whole thing was tongue-in-cheek: the premise was that Walsh, having been exposed to oodles of trans propaganda, was confused about the…
In this episode of The Weekend Spectator, Paul Kengor tells the story of Yakob Ravin and his 12-year-old grandson, both Jewish Ukrainian Cold War survivors of communism who personally thanked President Reagan for their liberation. (READ: A Moment of Unity:…
The makers of our new movie Reagan (based on one of my books on Ronald Reagan) posted a graphic that speaks volumes about the film’s early critics. It quotes various hysterical, disturbing, and frankly kind of deranged assessments torching the…
The highly anticipated movie, Reagan, is based on Paul Kengor’s book, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism. Kengor recorded this episode of The Weekend Spectator from the Reagan Ranch Center, after attending the movie’s red carpet premiere…
