Chester Finch (he/him) is a film critic and the Robert Mapplethorpe Professor of Pre-Colonial Criticism at Harvard University’s Department of Inclusionary Art. Right-wing provocateur and Daily Wire blogger Matt Walsh recently befouled American movie theaters with his immoral hate flick,…
This weekend, while at the Jersey Shore, I viewed the film Reagan, starring Dennis Quaid. I last saw Quaid about 45 years ago in the movie Breaking Away, an entertaining movie but one tarted up by Hollywood fictions, class warfare,…
Ronald Reagan made me a conservative. This is of little historical note compared to destroying the Soviet Union, uplifting the economy, and restoring American optimism from malaise, but Reagan changed my life for the better. My political transformation occurred on…
John P. Rossi’s article in The American Spectator about the 1947 John Wayne film The Angel and the Badman brought to mind another little known Wayne film gem: Trouble Along the Way (1953), which starred Wayne as “Steve Williams,” a…
It’s too late to save Hollywood. The men who built it and guided cinema through the entire twentieth century foolishly gave the reins to a spoiled, weak, ideologically brainwashed generation in the twenty-first. Which became easy prey for the coven…
Angel Studios has released another heartfelt movie trying to steal America’s hearts this summer. Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot is an insightful glimpse into the lives of Reverend R.C. Martin, and his wife, Donna, of Possum Trot,…
As movies are a staple of popular culture, this year’s box office hits indicate a new shift towards entertainment that is not influenced by leftist ideology. This summer’s top movie — Inside Out 2 — holds a 96 percent audience…
Disney Pixar’s Inside Out 2 passed the billion-dollar benchmark this Sunday, becoming the highest-grossing film of 2024, the first film since Barbie to make $1 billion at the global box office, and the first animated film to have reached this…
There was a Jason Bourne movie with no Jason Bourne (The Bourne Legacy), and now we have a Mad Max movie with no Mad Max. This one is titled Furiosa and is billed as “A Mad Max Saga.” It is…
