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The End of the ’60s and the celebrity culture of evil

August 30, 2019 Thomas S. Hibbs 13

In her book The White Album (Simon & Schuster, 1979), Joan Didion writes that “the Sixties ended… at the exact moment when word” of the Manson murders circulated. In his current film Once Upon a […]

Film & Music

Tarantino’s bloody moralism and “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood”

August 9, 2019 Titus Techera 18

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, […]

The Dispatch

Quentin Tarantino’s violent, impressive, and empty love letter to Hollywood

August 5, 2019 Nick Olszyk 9

MPAA Rating: R USCCB Rating: O Reel Rating, 3 out of 5 reels (Disclaimer: Major spoilers ahead.) It is rather rare that a movie is promoted for its director rather than its stars—especially when the […]

The Dispatch

Charles Manson and the Weather Underground

November 27, 2017 Dr. Paul Kengor 5

Everyone knows that Charles Manson inspired thediabolical Tate-LaBianca murders. None of that is being forgotten in reports of his death. But what also shouldn’t be […]

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