No Room for a Heroic Past
Oppenheimer reinforces and reflects the broken spirit of our age, where a celebration of our forbears’ visionary courage and love of country are both passe.
Movies
Trevor Donovan’s Approach to Hollywood and Celebrity Is a Much-Needed Throwback
Once upon a time, it was an industry that focused on finding ways to tell good stories and entertain viewers.
Six Conservative Principles Hidden in the #MCU
Marvel Studios on Saturday announced “Phase Four” of its blockbuster Marvel Cinematic Universe series of films at the San Diego Comic Convention. Moviegoers can look forward […]
What If Thanos Snapped the Wrong People?
Avengers: Endgame” is about to soar into theaters nationwide. We know this because a new trailer drops almost weekly and we all are about to […]
A Great Movie About Jihad
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] [fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] Hotel Mumbai,” which arrived in theaters late last month, […]
Memo to Amazon: Free Woody from #MeToo Jail
It’s time for a jailbreak. Every year from 1969 to 2017, auteur filmmaker Woody Allen released a movie. Every single year. Many of them were […]
On the Corner of Hollywood and ‘Vice’
Hello, I’m the movie narrator from “Vice,” the controversial Dick Cheney biopic starring Christian Bale. Are you upset that your liberal family tried to drag […]
Remembering the Patton Speech That Helped Win the War
World War II history is rich with some of the finest, most historically significant speeches of the 20th century. President Roosevelt’s “Day of Infamy” speech […]
Ultimate Take: ‘Die Hard’ Is Not a Christmas Movie
Let’s put this silly debate to rest, once and for all. To insist that a mere action movie is actually a Christmas movie is nothing […]
Go See ‘Death of a Nation’ This Weekend
Yes, of course you want to go see Dinesh D’Souza’s new movie! And you’re right. Inviting friends, neighbors, family to go with you and then […]
An Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Movie
Don’t get me wrong—I just loved to death “Ocean’s 8,” Steven Soderbergh’s all-female spinoff from his cash-machine Dubya-era “Ocean’s 11” trilogy remake of the 1960 […]
Putting Crime—and the Left—on Ice
A young man is thrown into a jail cell full of haggard prisoners. They are sitting on benches around a central bucket that serves as […]
Politics, the Arts, and ‘The Fiery Angel’
In my new book, The Fiery Angel, out this week from Encounter Books, I make the following contention: that the arts have more to teach us about […]
Ryan Gosling, Incel Prophet
On April 19, a 25-year-old man plowed a rented van into a crowd of bystanders in the middle of downtown Toronto, killing 10 and seriously […]
Twin Beds? What Twin Beds?
When choreographer Agnes DeMille was interviewed for a documentary about her famous uncle Cecil B., she had a wonderful story to tell about the “Hays […]
American Greatness at the Movies
Reviewing the movie “Little Pink House” for the New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis wrote the film “succeeds neither narratively nor visually.” So, there you have […]
The Times, They Are A-Changing
A young woman buttonholes a musician with whom she’s recently had a one-night stand—“a stupid experiment,” as she later calls it. She has to remind […]
The Lion in Water: Some Facts About ‘Chappaquiddick’
Way back in July 1969, reporter Leo Damore covered Senator Edward Kennedy’s Chappaquiddick caper for the Cape Cod News. As he showed in his masterful Senatorial […]
The Real ‘Resistance’ Emerges as the Hollywood Left Founders
Four pillars of the American Left together explain its stranglehold on our culture: the Democratic Party, academia, the media, and Hollywood. The Democrats are a […]
Presence of Malice
In the ongoing saga that is Washington, thousands of government emails go missing and a strange dossier charts a bevy of bedwetting prostitutes. The cast […]