Federico Fellini is often lauded for the highly imaginative quality of his films. Indeed, so powerful is the association of the Italian director with the surreal and the fantastic that his last name has been incorporated into the English language…
I never met Tom Wolfe, even though we shared friends and editors and agents and both lived for a long time on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. I remember seeing him once, on a fine summer’s day, stepping out…
We’ll begin this edition of the 5QT with an attitude of gratitude because sometimes you’ve got to just take your victories where you find them. And this, friends, is a victory. 1. Another Bush Republican Bites the Dust The continuing…
Personal Note: I have been out of circulation these past two fortnights, keeping up with a slew of pre-scheduled medical appointments, all part of the standard regimen to assure lung transplant patients can continue writing long-term for The American Spectator. Adam Sandler’s new Netflix…
The new film Miracle in East Texas tells a true story of redemption that took place during the East Texas oil strike of the Great Depression. Available in theaters on Oct. 29 and 30, the film features Sam Sorbo alongside…
For the set designer anyway, it’s the simplest of dramatic situations: for about an hour and a half, a dozen actors sit around a large table in a small barren room. Papers are shuffled, formalities dealt with, questions raised and…
Everything has become pink, childish and pastel, like the brain of one Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Barbie invades everything with its child-alluring aesthetics, the confident smiles of the grown-ups. It has permeated billboards and storefronts; it has infiltrated major brand fashion lines;…
In this week’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, American Spectator publisher Melissa Mackenzie and contributing editor (and publisher of TheHayride.com and RVIVR.com) Scott McKay talk about how President Joe Biden; his family — daughter Ashley, son Hunter, and brother James; and nearly all of the D.C. elites…
Barbie, the much-anticipated, pink-painted summer blockbuster, has generated a broad spectrum of visceral responses from critics and moviegoers since its July 21 release. The cotton-candy-colored cinematic confection has been described as everything from a $100 million–plus Mattel commercial to the…
This weekend saw the nationwide debut of possibly the most-anticipated film of the past decade, director Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, a cinematic biography of the man considered the father of the atomic bomb. Like many of Nolan’s films, Oppenheimer is a…