As the Christmas and Hanukkah season rolls toward this evening’s midnight crescendo, Hollywood’s year-end prestige movies beckon. Here are my…
Asked in an interview recently to name my favorite Christmas movie, I went through the usual routine of naming several…
The etymology of nostalgia traces back to the Greek word nostos, meaning “homecoming.” Sounds nice. However, the suffix algia denotes…
Disney has spent the last year developing and refining its destructive habit of producing films infected by woke themes —…
I’ve never entirely understood why, when the subject is death-dealing psychopathic dictators like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, Napoleon almost always…
Marvel’s newest film, The Marvels, isn’t expected to do well at the box office. The movie, which cost a reported…
In the penultimate scene of 1979’s The Brood, mentally disturbed Nora Carveth gives birth to something — not a human…
In this week’s episode of The Spectator P.M. Podcast, hosts Aubrey Gulick and Luther Abel are back from their brief hiatus…
In my sordid past, I was a Hollywood-based screenwriter. This was from the mid-90s to the mid-00s when people bought…
