Star Trek hasn’t been very good for decades, and it got much worse in 2017, when CBS made an attempt to go woke with the series Discovery. The show had all the strong female protagonists, […]
You may judge it a curious or sobering coincidence—the great actor Max von Sydow has just died, during the worst global epidemic in a century. Von Sydow was famous for his performance in Ingmar Bergman’s […]
Vin Diesel is trying to start yet another action franchise with Bloodshot—a superhero created neither by Marvel nor D.C., but by another remarkably successful publisher, Valiant. An entire comic book universe would follow on the […]
The second National Conservatism conference concluded in Rome on February 4, and the day will surely become an important one for the resurgence of right-wing political thought. Politicians, from Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban to […]
Stephen King, America’s most popular horror writer, is back in fashion. He’s got four big movies this year. In April, Pet Sematary was remade profitably. In October, Netflix is releasing In The Tall Grass. His […]
Quentin Tarantino has spent the last decade rewriting American history. His business is now poetic justice: the oppressed return in time, through Hollywood, to punish their historical oppressors. Inglorious Basterds (2009) had Jews kill Hitler, […]
Last year, Aziz Ansari was caught up in #metoo when a young woman published a story on a now-shuttered website about a bad date with the comedian. It became a scandal, and production halted on […]
It used to seem vulgar that something like Shakespeare in Love (1998) could win the Best Picture Oscar. It didn’t have anything to do with Shakespeare, really, and was essentially just another romantic comedy, with […]
In an age when teenage fantasies of the kind Marvel produces have taken over Hollywood, it’s not surprising to see the resurgence in popularity of Pokemon, which doesn’t even aspire to the level of teenage […]
The one impressive action-movie idea of recent times—the John Wick franchise starring Keanu Reeves—is drawing to a conclusion with John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, in theaters this weekend. The action is the best the […]
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