In the early Sixties, the left side had human credibility. They seemed authentic, concerned about ordinary people, the sovereigns of the nation whose authority had been usurped by powerful factions. The liberal left of those days defended free speech,…
Charles Dickens’s landmark publication A Christmas Carol (1843), the story of Ebenezer Scrooge the miserly misanthrope who is transformed by a Christmas Eve visit from three ghosts who show him how his past actions have led to his present spiritual…
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…
For ten years, half of them in this magazine, I have rung the death knell for Hollywoke. Earlier this month, the unlikeliest source joined the bellringing — the New York Times. And when the Gray Lady backs up a conservative…
Every year the number of Christmas movies increases. One-hundred and nine new movies were produced for the 2024 season, with three theatrically released films including Red One starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Chris Evans, and J.K. Simmons. Although Red One, with a…
We live in a media age where comic book adaptations are produced Ad nauseam through movies and television shows. Given the polarizing success of Matt Reeves’s film The Batman, it was easy to overlook the new HBO spinoff The Penguin….
Wicked, the much-anticipated film adaptation of the long-running Broadway musical is enchanting audiences everywhere garnering close to $200MM in global box office revenue in its first week. The film also has the distinction of delivering the strongest box office opening…
I’ve just watched the film Bread and Roses, co-produced by actress Jennifer Lawrence and Nobel Laureate Malala Yousefzai, and directed by Sahra Mani. If only American women were half as brave as the on-camera real-life women activists in Kabul! We…
It’s a bit early for Christmas films. Some of our neighbors haven’t yet taken down the spiders and skeletons in their yards, and the weather has just barely started to turn cold. Most Americans are more concerned with finding the…
