Things have been pretty quiet at the box office this year. Leading it this week was the largely unremarked horror film Sinners. Coming in at number two was … Revenge of the Sith? No, your eyes do not deceive you….
I am probably the only twenty-something in the United States who has never played the computer game Minecraft. A sandbox game that allows the player to build tools, buildings, and just about anything that comes to mind using in-world resources,…
Most war films try to help us understand war. Warfare does something else. It dares to admit that it may make no sense at all. Directed by Alex Garland and co-written with former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, whose memories form the bedrock…
At this point, Greta Gerwig is widely recognized as a rising star in the film industry — not as an actress, but as a screenwriter and director. Responsible for films like Lady Bird, Little Women (2019), and Barbie, she’s clearly…
Disney continues to showcase how anything woke goes broke with its newest live-action film, Snow White. (WATCH FOR MORE: The Spectator P.M. Ep. 121: Rachel Zegler Ruined Snow White) Heritage Foundation media fellow Tim Young joins The Spectacle Podcast hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay…
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…
In the mediocre yet fun James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, series archvillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld auctions a laser weapon to the major superpowers by threatening them with devastation. He’s actually disappointed when Bond (Sean Connery) shows up at his…
The best movie made about Hollywood is The Bad and the Beautiful. Vincente Minnelli’s 1952 classic depicts the passion of brilliant yet amoral producer Jonathan Shields (the great Kirk Douglas) to elevate his films over the refrain by his studio…
Until the other day, I was unfamiliar with the work of Rob Tregenza, a Kansas-born, UCLA-educated filmmaker who has written, directed, and photographed five pictures. Reviewing the first, Talking to Strangers (1988), which was shot in Baltimore, Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote…
