Contrary to popular belief, the Dark Ages weren’t so dark. As much as secular historians hate to admit it, Christianity held Western Civilization together from the fall of the Roman Empire around 500 AD to the start of the Renaissance…

Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops By Tim Robey (Hanover Square Press, 334 pages, $33) No institution in America takes itself as seriously as Hollywood — think George Clooney who hasn’t made a significant film in…

Good quality entertainment is hard to come by in recent years, and season two of 1923 and the Wheel of Time are no exception. Join Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay in this episode of The Spectacle Podcast as they critique these shows for their lack…

In order to be nominated for the Best Picture award at the 2025 Oscars, movies had to meet strict criteria on the inclusion of “underrepresented racial or ethnic groups.” (READ MORE: Oscars 2025: Politics Take a Back Seat) In this episode…

If you’re too old to go trick-or-treating, too full of self-respect to hang around your front door all day on Halloween so you can hand out candy to other people’s brats, and too much of a loser to have friends…